The VA Is The 1st Federal Agency Requiring COVID Vaccine
The Department of Veterans Affairs is the first federal agency to require all medical personnel to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
The requirement comes as the highly contagious Delta variant is spreading across the country and accounts for the vast majority of new COVID cases.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough announced yesterday (Monday, July 26th) that he will make all health care personnel who work, visit or provide direct care to VA patients to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Employees will have eight weeks to get vaccinated.
McDonough said. We re mandating vaccines for Title 38 employees because it s the best way to keep Veterans safe, especially as the Delta variant spreads across the country. Whenever a Veteran or VA employee sets foot in a VA facility, they deserve to know that we have done everything in our power to protect them from COVID-19. With this mandate, we can once again make and keep that fundam
OAKLAND California, New York City and the Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday announced that their own government employees must get vaccinated or get tested regularly, stopping just short of an absolute mandate as the nation experiences an alarming resurgence of Covid-19.
The cascading requirements mark an abrupt shift in policy for some of the nation’s largest public employers, which initially tried to use encouragement to boost the nation’s stagnating vaccine takeup. The changes will directly affect hundreds of thousands of people, from health care and state government employees in California to frontline VA health employees in every state.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The US Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday they would require all of its frontline health care workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first federal agency to mandate its employees to be vaccinated.
Among workers who will be required to receive the vaccine are doctors, dentists, registered nurses, physician assistants and some specialists. Employees will have eight weeks to receive their vaccines or face discipline by the VA.
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