More than 90 percent of Delta Air Lines’ workforce have been vaccinated against COVID-19 without enforcing President Joe Biden’s “divisive” vaccine mandate, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said on Oct. 15. Delta Air Lines remains a major U.S. carrier that has chosen not to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for all its employees, although it does require all new U.S. employees to be vaccinated, and that all unvaccinated Delta staff enrolled in its health care plan pay a $200 surcharge. In an interview with Fox Business, Bastian said he wanted to avoid a mandate that would push unvaccinated employees of the roughly 80,000 workforce out of the company. The Atlanta-based airline’s CEO said over 90 percent of employees have been vaccinated so far and that he expects 95 percent will have reached vaccination status by early November. “The reason the mandate was put in by president, I believe, was because they wanted to make sure companies …