Fauci suggests air travel vaccine mandate as Omicron grounds US flights – The Peninsula Qatar

Fauci suggests air travel vaccine mandate as Omicron grounds US flights – The Peninsula Qatar

Skyrocketing COVID-19 cases hobbled U.S. airline staff on Monday, causing hundreds of flight cancellations, and prompted the country's top infectious disease expert to suggest the government consider a vaccine mandate for domestic air travel.

Monday's air travel woes capped a glum Christmas weekend for thousands of stranded passengers waiting in airport queues and on customer service phone lines to re-book flights, often days after originally planned.