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At Truman Lake Manor in rural Missouri, every day begins the same way for every employee entering the nursing home’s doors — with a swab up the nose, a

Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end

Missouri's Truman Lake Manor is one of about 750 nursing homes and 110 hospitals in the U.S. written up for violating federal staff vaccination rules during the past year, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Most were given a bureaucratic nudge to do better -- though some nursing homes also received fines, especially when they had multiple other problems.

A federal mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been in place nationally for a year.

LOWRY CITY, Mo. — At Truman Lake Manor in rural Missouri, every day begins the same way for every employee entering the nursing home’s doors — with a swab up the nose, a swirl of testing solution and a brief wait to see whether a thin red line appears indicating