message to residents is to use layered mitigation strategies. the first one being a safe and effective vaccine, all people 5 years and older should be getting vaccinated if they haven't been and getting a booster and now is the time to do exactly that. >> the other thing you announced today that i mentioned in the intro is that you now have a vaccine mandate for government workers. a vaccine mandate without a testing opt out. why? >> well, we put a vaccine mandate, an absolute mandate in place for health care workers and school personnel a couple of months ago, as well as everybody else in the government except we were allowing a weekly test out. we need to focus our testing resources for people who need a test and we know that vaccine works and we want all of our 37,000 employees to be fully