Federal data showed that 60% of nursing home staff and around 82% of residents had been vaccinated against the virus in early August, even though they were among the first groups in the country to gain access to vaccines earlier this year.
In total, 664,815 nursing home and long-term care residents have contracted the virus. 133,631 died from COVID-19 as of early August, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.The mandate applies to over 15,000 nursing home facilities, which employ approximately 1.3 million workers and serve approximately 1.6 million nursing home residents.
"The studies show that highly vaccinated nursing home staffs is associated with at least 30% less COVID-19 cases in long-term care residents," he added.starting the week of Sept. 20, pending approval from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said that people will be eligible for booster shots eight months after their second dose, saying it will "make you safer and for longer and help us end the pandemic faster."The new mandate comes as the Biden administration attempts to devise ways to increase vaccination rates by increasing penalties on those who have not yet been vaccinated.
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