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‘Inconsistent’: Biden administration needled on foreign visitor vaccination rule

By Naomi Lim
Published August 19, 2022 10:30am ET
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‘Inconsistent’: Biden administration needled on foreign visitor vaccination rule
FILE - Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

President Joe Biden‘s administration is contending with calls to scrap the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s prohibition on foreign visitors who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 as Democrats try to balance moving beyond the pandemic before November’s midterm elections with virus precautions.

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