Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday it was "absolutely the government's business" to know which Americans haven't been vaccinated yet against the coronavirus. "So it is absolutely the government's business, it is taxpayers' business, if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping reopen the economy," he said. The issue has become part of a larger debate over public health measures colliding with Americans' personal freedoms. We try to give people as much freedom and choice as possible, but clearly when over 600,000 Americans have died, the best choice is to get vaccinated." T his article was updated with Secretary Becerra's tweet clarifying his remarks.

Source: Fox News July 08, 2021 15:15 UTC