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Responsibility, through osha, to protect workers. to make sure they're not in grave danger or in simple terms, they're not at risk. they are with unvaccinated workers in the workplace. this is part of the responsible, p -- the responsibility, the legal authority to put in place that workers are vaccinated or tested at least once per week. that applies to all employers greater than 100 employees. >> i understand. why put the weekly testing option in? i know you didn't for the federal government. >> if you go to health care, which i mentioned we started with veteran affairs hospitals, today the ...

Work. we have seen companies like tyson food in the first few weeks of their implementation of their requirement, their vaccination rate has gone up by 24%. same thing at the department of veteran affairs for health care workers. vaccination requirements will have a big impact. the president today with these strong actions, it impacts 100 million people. that's two-thirds of all american workers. we are optimistic that vaccination requirements will increase rates significantly. >> look, i'm going to jump to the conclusion -- correct me if i'm wrong -- if you thought you could make it so that e...

You are not mandating the vaccine for everyone. there's this weekly testing option out there. there's also not everyone. the postal service is not included. when it comes to teachers, you are asking governors to do it. i was personally shocked the other day, in new york city, with these incredibly high vaccination rates, teachers who are about to teach kids who aren't vaccinated are only 72% vaccinated. it was shocking. obviously, i don't know, is it the unions you feel like you are not able to mandate for the postal service or teachers? >> we are doing it everywhere we can. the postal service...

A mandate could save lives. president biden now took it further on federal employees. he had a testing option there. he removed that. they have to get vaccinated. that's it. full stop. do you think he went far enough? when you look at the penalties here and really their ability to fire people will get challenged in court. where do you think he is right now? >> first of all, i love the tone. 75% of americans have gotten at least one shot. 75% of adults. the pandemic is being perpetuated by the 25% of americans who are refusing to do the right thing now. the president said, we have been patient ...

President, they are that testing option in there. this is a big change from where the administration was just recently. >> reporter: it's a significant change. it follows the arc of what this administration has done over the last several months. a big change from just a couple months ago this summer when the president simply did not feel it was his obligation or his responsibility to impose mandates on private businesses or even federal government workers. this has been something that's been a bit of a crescendo since he made the decision to require workers to either get vaccinated or test wee...