Biden sets new vaccine goals as White House grapples with its message

“You’ve got this balancing act,” said Emanuel, who was on Biden’s coronavirus transition task force. “On the one hand, ‘If he can’t stop wearing a mask, then I might not be able to stop wearing a mask, and what’s the advantage?’ There is a strain of that. The other thing that probably is important is … we only have 44 percent of the population vaccinated, so that is a problem.”