WASHINGTON, Aug 19 ― President Joe Biden said yesterday his administration will require employees at nursing homes to be vaccinated against Covid-19 as a condition of the facilities participating in the Medicare and Medicaid government healthcare programmes. Biden made the announcement hours...
WASHINGTON, Aug 19 ― President Joe Biden said yesterday his administration will require employees at nursing homes to be vaccinated against Covid-19 as a condition of the facilities participating in the Medicare and Medicaid government healthcare programmes.showing that the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines for residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where residents are often elderly and frail, has dropped since the Delta variant became dominant in the United States.
“I'm using the power of the federal government as a payer of healthcare costs to insure we reduce those risks to our most vulnerable seniors. These steps are all about keeping people safe and out of harm's way,” Biden said at the White House. Biden said that more than 130,000 residents in US nursing homes have died from Covid-19 and that vaccination rates among nursing home employees trail the rest of the country. Biden said studies show that having a highly vaccinated nursing home staff is associated with at least 30 per cent fewer Covid-19 cases among residents.
They found that efficacy of the two-dose vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna for preventing any coronavirus infection ― mild or severe ― dropped from 74.7 per cent to 53.1 per cent. Effectiveness estimates were similar for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, they said.
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