Fauci Says He Would Support Vaccine Mandate For All U.S. Air Travel

“If you want to get on a plane and travel with other people then you should be vaccinated,” Fauci said on a podcast.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said he would support a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for all air travel in the U.S. amid the ongoing spread of the delta variant of the virus. “If you want to get on a plane and travel with other people then you should be vaccinated,” Fauci told theSkimm’s “Skimm This” podcast last week. The episode is set to air on Thursday. His comments come amid ongoing concern about the highly transmissible delta strain and ongoing stubbornness in the country’s vaccination rates. President Joe Biden this month announced sweeping vaccine requirements for about 100 million American workers in an attempt to see more of the population inoculated. A bevy of businesses and airlines have also unveiled similar mandates in order to ensure the safety of their customers, as have school districts around the country, including that in Los Angeles, the second-largest in the nation.