With the holiday season in full-swing, Dr. Fauci suggested American families should consider enforcing a vaccine mandate in their own homes.
During an interview with the Washington Post, he recommended families ask their holiday guests about their vaccination status and even potentially require the vaccine.
“When you get vaccinated, and you have a vaccinated group, and you are in an indoor setting, you can enjoy, as we have traditionally over the years, dinners and gatherings within the home with people who are vaccinated,” Fauci said.
“And that’s the reason why people should, if they invite people over to their home, essentially ask and maybe require that people show evidence that they are vaccinated, or give their honest and good faith word that they have been vaccinated,” he continued.
“So, vaccinated puts you in a much different position than the extreme vulnerability of people who are not vaccinated, because all you have to do is look at the data and look at those areas of the country, those states, those communities that are under vaccinated,” he added. “There’s no doubt they have a much higher degree of infection, a much higher degree of hospitalization, and a much higher degree of death.”