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United States, 150,000 people are infected with the coronavirus every day, and even experts lament that the corona is not under control at all. President Biden has decided to further expand compulsory vaccination.
Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung from Washington.
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This woman from Kentucky, USA, decided not to get the vaccine, but in the end, her family contracted the coronavirus, and she was also infected.
[Middleton / Kentucky resident, USA: My granddaughter started getting sick. And when one person was infected, other family members showed the same symptoms.]
Kentucky, which has a low vaccination rate, is at war with Corona in every hospital.
[Hollingsworth/Kentucky ICU nurse: This situation is like a virus and war. What we need to understand now is that we are really at war with the virus.] In the
United States, there are 150,000 corona cases and 1,500 deaths per day.
White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci said the number of cases of this kind is out of control to some extent and has been diagnosed as a public crisis.
The White House has decided to expand compulsory vaccination.
Federal officials have so far only had to get vaccinated or get tested for coronavirus several times a week, but now they're forced to vaccinate.
[Biden/President of the United States: This is not a matter of freedom or personal choice. It is to protect yourself and others who work around you.]
Private companies with 100 or more employees have also decided to call for compulsory vaccination.
After all, this is because there is no solution other than mandatory vaccination, and criticism continues that the response itself is too late as the Corona virus in the United States has gone out of control.