United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby met with President Joe Biden on Wednesday to discuss vaccine mandates and a plan to get more Americans vaccinated.
United Airlines CEO Discusses Vaccines With President Biden In Virtual Oval Office Meeting
Kirby has been in the news this week after United Airlines became the first U.S. airline to require all employees to be vaccinated. That requirement kicks in this autumn, either by October 25th or five weeks after the FDA has fully-approved a COVID-19 vaccine.
Kirby explained:
“The tipping point for me was seeing the statistics that 97% of the people in the hospital are unvaccinated and over 99% of the deaths are amongst the unvaccinated. That implies you are 300 times more likely to die if you are unvaccinated than if you are vaccinated. And once you have that statistics in your mind, at least for me as a leader, there simply was no choice but to do the right thing for safety.”
The virtual Oval Office meeting took place with President Biden, his advisors, and:
- Greg Adams – Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente
- Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick – President of Howard University
- Diane E. Sumpter – President and CEO of DESA
Discussions centered on how the U.S. can raise vaccination rates as the nation hits a ceiling fueled by vaccine skeptics, even as the delta variant has proven particularly destructive to those who are not vaccinated.
This morning, I hosted a virtual meeting with business, university, and health care leaders on COVID-19. We discussed strategies on how we can get more people vaccinated and end this pandemic once and for all. pic.twitter.com/MNtNklLAvI
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 11, 2021
Reflecting on the meeting, Kirby told CNN:
“I was really encouraged by the meeting with the President. He was asking us questions, listening and trying to think through how to get more Americans to do the right thing and get the vaccination.”
Kirby believes that more companies will mandate vaccines in the weeks ahead:
“A few weeks from now, this is going to be something that’s widespread across the country because it’s really just a basic safety issue.”
CONCLUSION
United Airlines was not only the first airline, but one of the first major companies to mandate employee vaccines in the USA. Hawaiian and Frontier have since followed, with more airlines studying the mandate (though American and Delta have been clear it will remain optional for existing employees).
Now Kirby is taking a more active role in trying to convince other companies to follow suit. His meeting with President Biden was seen as a “reward” for his efforts to mandate vaccines ahead of his peers.
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image: White House
Did he thank Biden for the $20 billion in free money the US taxpayers provided to United?
Not too sure what Kirby is all that worried about, the government is still FUNDING THEIR PAYROLL and if the delta variant disrupts travel again there is no doubt congress will shovel him more money. This is self-serving at best.
Love that they’re endorsing the correct thing to do – get vaccinated.
Slow news day…
I didn’t see the need for this article either.
Well, 50K people read it. Perhaps that gives you an idea why…
Demand your money back!
“I was really encouraged by the meeting with the President. He was asking us questions, listening and trying to think through how to get more Americans to do the right thing and get the vaccination.”
Right, this is the same guy who gets lost walking from his helicopter to the White House. Kirby is just trolling for more taxpayer money.
kudos to kirby
So scotty has a propaganda meeting with the paper cut out. Can’t disrupt the subsidies. So we kill and sicken some of our employees with a non approver gene altering experimental drug. Small price to pay. FDA will never approve this and there have been too many deaths directly linked to the injection. 97% of those in hospitals are non injected?? REALLY? That is a big fat lie. Break thru are the norm not the other way around. That 97% is simply a fabrication that has been repeated many times it is now true? I say BS!! Scotty will be held accountable and when the families of dead and damaged employees go after him he can’t hide in his chalet in Vail. There are sheep and there are the rest of us that simply want to be left alone.
Do you trust Government? Do you trust MSM? Do you trust the Financial System? Do you trust Big Pharma? Do you trust Multinational Corporations? Do you trust the UN and subscribe to Agenda 30? If you have answered yes to any then PLEASE go get Jabbed, YOU are the problem!
Tin foil hat much? Seriously, get some help for yourself.
Where did you get the “seen as reward” part?
From pundits?