{"id":18979,"date":"2021-08-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myanmarnewsgazette.com\/?guid=448a5511a8e9062df74b93be10924971"},"modified":"2021-08-12T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:00:00","slug":"us-health-department-to-mandate-vaccines-for-25000-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarnewsgazette.com\/us-health-department-to-mandate-vaccines-for-25000-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"US Health Department to Mandate Vaccines for 25,000 Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Thursday it will require more than 25,000 of its health care workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/P>
HHS employs more than 80,000 people, and those not covered by the mandate still must attest to their vaccination status or submit to regular testing.<\/P>
\u201cStaff at the Indian Health Service (IHS) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) 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,\u201d HHS announced in a press release. \u201cThis includes employees, contractors, trainees, and volunteers whose duties put them in contact or potential contact with patients at an HHS medical or clinical research facility.\u201d<\/P>
Members of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps also will be required to get the vaccine.<\/P>
Some with religious objections and certain medical exceptions could be exempt from the mandate.<\/P>
The announcement comes as the Veterans Affairs Department recently mandated vaccines for its health care providers. The Defense Department also is planning to require vaccines for service members.<\/P>
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Source: Voice of America<\/P>
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Thursday it will require more than 25,000 of its health care workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine.HHS employs more than 80,000 people, and those not covered by the mandate still must attest to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n