VA Mandates Coronavirus Vaccine For Health Care Workers

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs became the first governmental agency to require its healthcare workers to be vaccinated from the coronavirus, CNN and others reported on Monday.

"Veterans Affairs is going to, in fact, require that all doctors working in facilities are going to have to be vaccinated,” President Joe Biden said Monday, according to CNN.

“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,” Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough said, CNN reported. “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.”

Earlier in the day, a group of more than 50 health groups signed a statement seeking vaccinations to be mandatory for all healthcare workers and long-term care employees nationwide.

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