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Every governor, every ceo, it is time for these mandates. finish this war, or we'll have covid with us way too long. >> places like chicago said to their police officers, get the vaccine or you'll be tested twice weekly. you're getting rid of the testing option, is that correct? >> correct. >> what will you say to an officer who says, i have a principled objection to it. maybe not asking for a religious accommodation or anything else, but saying, i don't want to get the vaccine. what happens to that officer? >> look, we're offering religious accommodation, has to be real. medical accommodation...

Report their vaccination status. another 1300 said they areund. unvaccinated. that's important because come january the vaccination is mandatory. if these numbers don't change 46% of chicago's police department would be in violation and subject to termination. the mayor believes most officers will comply. >> the important thing is was a straightforward process. you have the to option to go to, to the testing option. a lot of them were vaccinated. this is not about vaccinations. it's about something else. >> the police union said many of its members are willing to take

Yes or no to that and then is there testing offered, too? what are the real options here? >> the city employees all of them across the city police, fire, as well as every city department is required to upload their vaccination status either way whether you are vaccinated or unvaccinated. if you are not vaccinated you agree to get testing twice a week. you pay for that yourself through the end of the year. after that mayor lori lightfoot is not clear what will happen if folks will be required to get vaccinated at that point or continue to be allowed to just go with this twice a week testing opt...

Think it's the right of government to require this as a condition of employment. that's what we are starting to see a lot of. this belief that everyone pushing back is unvaccinated. that is not true. >> harris: that's fascinating and that's why i was making the point about they just want to know are you or are you not. but then jason i wonder if something else isn't at play. when i find out in chicago that they are not going to foot the bill for the testing after mandating that you go get something else, a vaccine, but they aren't going to offer you, it feels like they're negotiating in bad fa...

For work. there is backlash also in san francisco where a police union fought for a testing option instead. >> they're feeling a sense of betrayal, almost. >> reporter: meanwhile, booster shots for johnson & johnson and moderna patients are neither a final approval after an f.d.a. panel voted to recommend them. this comes as hospitals in some parts of the country are still in crisis. in minnesota, i.c.u. beds are nearly all full. >> the idea that we're losing 25 minnesotans a day to a preventible disease that is almost 99-plus percent preventible if you get a vaccine is unconscionable. we're b...