President Biden Expected To Require Vaccines For Nursing Home Staff

Hundreds of thousands of nursing home workers are not vaccinated, according to federal data.

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.President  President 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 the president's remarks.