“As you know, there are cases where police officers or health workers or pilots are walking off the job, rather than get the vaccine,” Fox News host Chris Wallace said. “Are you still full speed ahead on mandates for essential workers to get vaccinated?”

“We have seen that these mandates are getting more and more people vaccinated,” she said. “Here’s what we know, the most disruptive thing that you can do to workforce is to have a COVID outbreak in that workforce. That will most definitely not only send people home, but it will send people to the hospital and some may pass. What we know from the police workforce is that there have been more deaths from the coronavirus over the last year and a half than all other causes of death for that workforce combined. So, we believe it is very important to get these people vaccinated.”

Walensky added, “There is a plan should these people not want to be vaccinated towards education and counseling to get people the information they need so that they are feeling comfortable in getting vaccinated.”