Biden to make COVID-19 nursing home staff vaccinations a condition for receiving Medicare, Medicaid

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WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will require nursing home staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition for their facilities to receive funds from the public Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-make-covid-19-nursing-home-staff-vaccinations-condition-receiving-medicare-2021-08-18/

[Trueblue1968]

1. ABOUT TIME!!!! I say make all teachers, school staff and hospitals get vacinated.

[DURHAM D]

2. Good

Now, how about requiring that all Medicare recipients get the vaccine.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Good. Most of the deaths in this area have been in nursing homes.

One place had 17 die of Covid in ten days. Patients there are extremely vulnerable and should be afforded every bit of protection possible.

[AngryOldDem]

5. Same here. It was REALLY bad in the early days.

And it didn’t help when the state wasn’t forthcoming about infection rates.

[AngryOldDem]

4. Cue the Outrage Police in 3...2...1

This should be extended to hospitals as well — anybody who works with health-compromised people (or with anyone who walks into any health care facility, really) has a moral obligation to get vaccinated.

Your freedom stops at my right not to get sick.

[mdelaguna]

6. Boom. There it is!

Yesssss!

[Celerity]

7. great move! Also, countdown to enraged QMAGAt nursing home workers going bonkers (they are

generally far below registered nurses and doctors in terms of professional qualifications, and look at some of those 2 groups, especially nurses, in terms of whingeing and raging).

[crickets]

8. If that's what it takes to get the footdraggers to finally vaccinate, so be it. 👍