Federal Government will require mandatory vaccinations for nursing home workers

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Here’s a kink in the law being proposed to provide a legal cause of action for vaccine holdouts who refuse their employer’s mandate for vaccinations. By the time it gets in front of the legislature, in many cases it could run afoul of the Federal Government:

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.

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19 thoughts on “Federal Government will require mandatory vaccinations for nursing home workers”

  1. So Biden can force injections while the Republicans just sit back and watch and pretend to be libertarians?

  2. I don’t like gov mandates any more than the ultras, but in this case I think the feds are simply providing the nursing home operators cover to mandate this.

    1. Who is next?

      Restaurant workers?

      Car salesmen/women?

      Big box store workers?

      Others?

      All are in contact with many people.

      1. Yes but the nursing home bound don’t have an options to avoid those who care for them! All the others you list can be avoided if chosen.

      2. Any and all of them if their osses say so and they don’t want to be fired – which is exactly.as it should be

  4. Do they require influenza vaccinations? Aren’t the patients in nursing homes vaccinated already?

  5. The incremental increase will not even be close to the people who will dig in their heels in the name of freedom.

    Biden I’d a moron. You just make this stuff up.

  6. I had the freedom to get the vaccine! No one made me do it, but I am healthy and free and alive! What is wrong with that?!

  7. Do some of you want the virus to blow up and the world to go to hell just to spite Biden and Fauci? I just don’t get it. This is like cutting off your head to spite your toe. You are making these guys the center of your life and are obsessed with them!

    I got the shots months ago and don’t think about those morons at all except when I hear about what they are doing on the radio. But I don’t let them dictate my life and I don’t obsess over them. I make my own choices that I think are best, and every healthcare worker I know got the shot at their very first opportunity and so did I. No issues. I know many who go the virus who are dealing with long term issues and others that died. Why are we thinking the vaccine is the problem when the virus and variants are the problem? Step back and look around. Yes those guys lie often and ran a terrible PR campaign from the start, but that doesn’t change the fact that the vaccine works. Think FOR yourself, not AGAINST them.

    1. That was not persuasive at all. That sounds more like a minion of the left who can’t follow the science or common sense. Go ahead and follow what they say even if it goes against your conscience and science. Why are you pushing an unproven drug on us? Covid is not the problem powerhungry politicians and their special interest groups are the problem. You love the vaccine so much take my shot you are free to have it!

  9. Some of us want to be around people who are not vaccinated the same way we want to play with cats and dogs who haven’t had rabies shots: we don’t.
    And we don’t want to see our elderly relatives in facilities staffed with unvaccinated and unwashed workers, either. That’s why these facilities have dress codes: you have to be clean, shaved and shampooed, properly dressed, and wear deodorant; if you don’t, you’ll be fired.
    I’m surprised the libertarians aren’t objecting to THAT.

    1. The vaccine does not prevent you from getting covid. That’s a fact.

      Why are you anti-science?

      1. the vaccine does indeed protect the majority of people who receive it. With any vaccine there is a percentage of people whose immune systems do not respond to vaccines.
        What we are seeing is that the vaccinated people continue to test positive for covid but they are not getting sick; or some who get sick do not get very sick.
        97% of the people hospitalized with Covid were not vaccinated.
        That is the science.

          1. yes I read the article about Israel: it says the vaccine is preventing severe disease.
            I also read the one from Illinois, how, out of about 6000 people who have died there of Covid since January 1, only 169 of them had been vaccinated.
            And this one: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/covid-19-by-the-numbers-vaccinated-continue-to-be-protected?fbclid=IwAR306yUFyM9V5zi3Ktzl8_5_r462I48G430cdCWYpZsuA4jCHFnb3ffKeNY

            There was another which was testing the vaccine and the placebo group accounted for 30 of 31 cases of Covid among the test subjects, resurrecting the horrors of the Tuskegee Experiment (in which men known to have syphilis were denied penicillin.)

            For some reason these three stories are promoted by people who think they are evidence the vaccine isn’t working when in fact they show the opposite. The vaccines work.
            Anti-vaxxers have a literacy problem.

  10. I value the freedom to live in a world without plague. The Supreme Court addressed this in 1912.

    1/3 of you seem to have no understanding of positive and negative freedoms.

    If a man is born naked in a desert, is he truly free?

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