“At a time when the delta variant’s summer surge has renewed the nation’s divisions over coronavirus vaccines, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Monday said mandates enforcing vaccination do not reflect what it means to be American,” the Washington Post reports.

Tweeted Jordan: “Vaccine mandates are un-American.”

“But critics panned Jordan’s Labor Day message as being off — way off — by nearly 2½ centuries. George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, made the bold decision in 1777 to require that his troops be immunized after a smallpox outbreak devastated the nation.”

Fred Lowry (R), a councilman for Florida’s Volusia County and a vocal coronavirus denier, is in the hospital with a severe case of Covid-19, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports.

Lowry attracted controversy this summer for promoting conspiracy theories, including saying the coronavirus pandemic was a lie.

Idaho public health leaders activated “crisis standards of care” for the state’s northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle, the Associated Press reports.