Bechara Choucair Archived
@bchoucair46
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This is an archive of a Biden Administration account, maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Joined February 2021
A year ago, I said yes to serving as @WhiteHouse Vaccinations Coordinator. 450M shots later, 82% of 18+ w/ 1+ doses, 5-17 eligible, boosters for all adults and vaccine requirements for 100M people… an honor of a lifetime. Stay in touch: @choucair .
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We all owe so much gratitude to the public health workforce in this country. @SecBecerra, @CDCDirector, and our @WHCOVIDResponse are hosting an appreciation event on Monday 11/22 at 12PM ET. Please join us:
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RT @POTUS: After months of tough and thoughtful negotiations, we have a framework that I believe can pass. I’ll be speaking more about it….
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New data posted on @CDCgov. Rates of COVID hospitalizations by vaccination status for 18+. #VaccinesWork .More charts on:
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Over 90,000 COVID-19 deaths since June 2021 (including about 50,000 deaths in September alone) likely would have been prevented with vaccinations, according to a new @KFF analysis. #VaccinesWork.
healthsystemtracker.org
In this analysis, we estimate the number of adult deaths that could have been prevented by timely vaccination. We find that approximately 234,000 deaths since June 2021 could have been prevented with...
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In late July, @POTUS announced first vaccination requirement for the federal government. 95 million eligible people were unvaccinated then. Today, about 67 million remain unvaccinated. Progress. More work to do. Vaccine requirements work. end/.
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Vaccination requirements are becoming the standard & have broad public support. 1. > 3,500 organizations already adopted requirements. Thousands more to come. 2. Businesses, labor unions, workers, and a majority of the public support vaccination requirements. 4/.
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Vaccination requirements are good for the economy:.1. Increasing vaccination rates could return up to 5 million workers to the labor force. 2. Higher vaccination rates lead to lower COVID-19 rates and a stronger economy. 3/.
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Vaccination requirements = more people vaccinated & more lives saved:.1. Vaccination rates increased by 20+ percentage points (to over 90%) in many organizations. 2. Vaccination requirements have already helped cut the rate of unvaccinated by one-third. 2/.
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New report by our @WHCOVIDResponse team: Vaccination requirements result in more people vaccinated and save lives. They also are good for the economy. 1/.
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Nearly 140,000 children in the US may have lost a parent or a caregiver due to COVID or other pandemic related deaths. This is also disproportionately impacting communities of color. Heartbreaking. #VaccinesWork.
washingtonpost.com
New study estimates 140,000 children have experienced the death of a primary caregiver due to covid or other causes in excess of what might be expected in a typical year.
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I don’t know about everyone else but I do like it when we have more than 1 million doses reported administered in one day! #PfizerBoosters #VaccineRequirements.
Sunday just in: +1.24 million doses reported administered over yesterday's total! Includes 363K newly vaccinated and 545K additional doses/boosters. Highest reported total dose increase in one month. Let's keep it up!🇺🇸.
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Meet Felisia. She convinced more than 1,270 people to get vaccinated. I just called her to say Thank You and learn first hand about her work! .
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“Mandates Are Working”: Employer Ultimatums Lift Vaccination Rates, So Far- The New York Times.
nytimes.com
In California and New York, where mandates for health care workers have gone into effect, many are complying.
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Great progress. More work to do.
The share of Americans who will likely never get the vaccine has fallen from 24% in January, to 21% in April, to 17% in July, to 15% right now via new Monmouth poll.
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Protecting our economy:.@POTUS announced several programs, including an expansion of the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program to support small businesses. /end.
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Strengthening our surge response:.* Nearly 1,000 personnel in 18 states already deployed to support surge.* Increasing monoclonal antibody shipments by 50% .* Department of Defense will double the number of teams deployed to support hospitals across the country. 6/.
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