Biden to Make Nursing Homes Vaccinate Staff to Get Funding (1)

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration will require nursing homes to vaccinate their staff against the coronavirus in order to receive federal funding.

The new requirement will apply to more than 15,000 facilities that currently participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. As many as 1.3 million people working in nursing homes would fall under the new requirement, according to estimates by the Biden administration.

The announcement was part of a series of steps the president and his administration laid out Wednesday as they seek to rein in a sharp increase in the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths ...