As yet another wave of COVID hits the United States, President Joe Biden on Tuesday trotted out his same old vaccine mandate playbook, missing a key opportunity for the country to finally turn the corner on this pandemic.

On the positive side, Biden did finally admit that vaccinated people can contract and transmit the virus. Previously, when making the case for his healthcare worker vaccine mandate, Biden had said the opposite, noting that people deserved “the certainty that the people providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you.”