Prognosis

Biden Administration to Promote Vaccination With Businesses

  • Best Buy, Dollar General giving time off for vaccination
  • Lyft, Uber offering rides to sites; Ford, Gap donating masks

President Joe Biden

Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/Pool/Getty Images 

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

The Biden administration announced a partnership Friday with national business groups to urge the private sector to reduce the spread of Covid-19 and encourage vaccinations.

The White House will partner with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; leaders of the Black, Latino and Asian business community; the Business Roundtable and the National Association of Manufacturers on the efforts, White House adviser Andy Slavitt announced in a briefing.