Jim Cramer is calling for a national COVID-19 vaccine mandate while criticizing the measures already taken by President Joe Biden.
The CNBC host spent most of his show, Mad Money, Monday night discussing the economic fallout from the omicron variant. Near the end of the program, he said the federal government should mandate that every person get vaccinated, including booster shots, by Jan. 1, 2022.
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“It’s time to admit that our government has lost the ability, or the will, to make our people do the right thing,” he said. “Nobody wants to be the bad guy, so we’ve allowed a pastiche of uncoordinated health organizations to dictate an on-again, off-again series of measures that mostly just leave us baffled and confused.”
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Cramer placed the blame for the lack of a vaccine mandate on the Biden administration. He also suggested that the military should run the vaccine mandate initiative.
Biden issued an executive order on Sept. 9, using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to require businesses to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. But that order and other similar executive actions have been halted in court.
Cramer called Biden’s vaccine mandates so far “toothless.”
“We left vaccination policy to individual companies. Now it’s toothless OSHA going back and forth on what’s allowed in factories,” he said. “Even as a vocal, anti-vax minority is always grabbing the mic, this charade must end … The buck stops at the White House.”
It is unclear what consequences Cramer would impose on individuals who do not get the vaccine by the end of the year. It is also unclear how this would work for individuals who have not gotten a single dose of the vaccine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend taking each dose of the vaccine several weeks apart.
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Health experts have warned that the current COVID-19 vaccines may not be effective against the omicron variant. Not much is known about the new variant, and scientists are still gathering data on it.
The United States currently has 82.6% of its adult population age 18 and older vaccinated, according to the CDC. Sixty-three percent of the total population is fully vaccinated with two doses of the vaccine. Roughly 20.5% of the total U.S. population has received a booster.
