NEW: The Department of Health and Human Services will require vaccination for more than 25,000 of its employees that directly work with patients, HHS Secretary announces.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP, FILE, the Department of Health and Human Services will require vaccination from more than 25,000 of its employees that directly work with patients, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra announced Thursday.
Going a step beyond the general guidelines for the federal workforce -- which is to get vaccinated or be required to wear a mask and do frequent testing -- the Department of Health and Human Services is mandating the vaccine for its employees who deal directly with patients. The Department of Veterans Affairs has called for the same policy for its 115,000 health care workers.
The roughly 25,000 HHS employees will have until the end of September to be vaccinated, an HHS official said. "To increase vaccination coverage and protect more people from COVID-19, including the more transmissible Delta variant, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will require more than 25,000 members of its health care workforce to be vaccinated against COVID-19," the department said in a statement.Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 10, 2021.
"Staff at the Indian Health Service and National Institutes of Health who serve in federally-operated health care and clinical research facilities and interact with, or have the potential to come into contact with, patients will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine," HHS said in a statement.
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