b'On Thursday, President Joe Biden was unsparing about the burdens that the unvaccinated have thrust onto the rest of us: thousands more dead, overflowing hospitals, a rebounding economy showing signs of retreat.\\n\\nPandemic politics, as Biden called it, are not simple. But eight months into the crisis, any new set of rules offered by the president raises an obvious question: Why didn\\u2019t he do this already?\\n\\nThe White House calls it a 6-point plan, but there were two big new things that Biden announced:\\n\\n\\u2014 Vaccinations: Biden is finally leveraging the unilateral power of the federal government to expand vax mandates to some 100 million Americans: all workers at companies with over 100 employees, all federal employees and contractors, anyone who works for a health care provider that receives Medicare or Medicaid reimbursements, any employee at a school that receives federal money from Head Start and a few other programs. \\n\\n\\u2014 Testing: Biden is using federal authorities to surge the production and distribution of rapid Covid tests, including at-home tests.'