HHS mandates COVID-19 vaccines for agency’s health care workforce
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra today announced that the agency will require the 25,000 members of its health care workforce to be vaccinated against COVID-19. HHS said this group includes employees, contractors, trainees, and volunteers whose duties put them in contact or potential contact with patients at an HHS medical or clinical research facility. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D., will also require members of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps to be vaccinated, effective immediately, as part of the Corps’ medical readiness procedures.
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