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Biden to require vaccines for nursing home staff or face losing federal funds

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WASHINGTON - The Biden administration will require that nursing home staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition for those facilities to continue receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid funding.Biden will announce the move Wednesday afternoon in a White House address as the administration continues to look for ways to use mandates to encourage vaccine holdouts to get shots.

A senior administration official confirmed the announcement on condition of anonymity to preview the news before Biden’s remarks.The new mandate, in the form of a forthcoming regulation to be issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, could take effect as soon as next month.Hundreds of thousands of nursing home workers are not vaccinated, according.

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