Fauci says U.S. should "seriously" consider vaccine requirement for domestic flights amid Omicron surge
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As the COVID-19 Omicron variant continues to surge across the U.S., Dr. Anthony Fauci says officials should "seriously" consider implementing a vaccine requirement for domestic flights.
"There's requirements that you might want to get if you want to get into college, or you want to go to a university, or you want to work in certain places," Fauci, the president's chief medical adviser, said on MSNBC on Monday. "When you make vaccination a requirement, that's another incentive to get more people vaccinated. If you want to do that with domestic flights, I think that's something that seriously should be considered."
The U.S. already requires foreign visitors to show proof of vaccination to board an international flight to the United States, but there is no such rule for domestic travelers.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.