The rate of vaccinations has slowed…since President Joe Biden…announc[ed] on Sept. 9 that all employees at employers with 100 or more employees, plus health care workers, would have to get a Covid vaccine…

…[S]ince Biden’s mandate, 13.5 million Covid vaccine[s]…have been administered (712,000 average daily), compared with 15.9 million in the 19 days prior…(838,000 average daily), according to the latest data… That’s a 15 percent drop…

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To be fair…the drop…in vaccinations would have happened with or without the mandates simply because with 213.7 million single doses already administered…there is a comparatively smaller pool of eligible citizens who have not yet been vaccinated.

But even when factored as a percent of the unvaccinated getting shots on a daily basis, the last 19 days showed 0.97 percent average increase daily versus 1.05 percent the 19 days before that…

Assuming the vaccination rate holds across the population regardless of work status, of the 71 million unvaccinated, about 25 million are not in the labor force…

Another 11 million or so work at employers with less than 100 employees or for the government…

And then about 8.4 million are between the ages of 12 and 15…

Therefore about 47 million out of the 71 million unvaccinated eligible to receive the shot will not be targeted by the mandates. That leaves roughly 24 million who are subjected to the mandates, plus another 2.8 million federal employees subjected to a prior Biden executive order.

At the current rate of vaccination — 712,000 a day since Biden’s announcement — it would take about 101 days to reach 100 percent of the eligible population receiving their shots.

But Biden is only giving [federal workers] another 56 days…

…[I]f Nov. 22 were…applied to all workers at employers over 100 employees plus health care workers…at the current rate of 712,000 shots a day, another 39.1 million will get the vaccine…leaving almost 32 million Americans unvaccinated…11 million losing their jobs…

…[W]hen the deadlines are…met — it is…hard to imagine a scenario where millions of Americans are not losing their jobs…

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(Excerpt from Daily Torch. Article by Robert Romano. Photo Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images).