President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that staff members at nursing homes would now be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or those facilities would risk losing their Medicare and Medicaid funding.
“I'm using the power of the federal government, as a payer of health care costs, to ensure we reduce those risks to our most vulnerable seniors,” Biden said in a speech delivered at the White House.
According to early August data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, only 60 percent of staff members at long-term-care facilities have received the full course of the coronavirus vaccine. A little over 82 percent of residents, meanwhile, are fully vaccinated. Approximately 664,000 nursing home residents have been infected since the start of the pandemic, and nearly as many staffers tested positive.
Biden’s announcement came as the Delta variant of the coronavirus continues to spread across the country, ushering in a new set of restrictions at schools and businesses. “While I’m mindful that my authority at the federal level is limited, I’m going to continue to look for ways to keep people safe and increase vaccination rates,” Biden said.
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