Department of Veterans Affairs will require health workers to be vaccinated

experts are urging people to take similar safety measures from the beginning of the pandemic and advise that if you aren't fully vaccinated you should not go to bars or restaurants. A poll done by CBS News found that while vaccinated people are comfortable going out non vaccinated people are more comfortable going out to public places than those who are vaccinated at the beginning of the pandemic. The CDC defined a close contact as somebody you spent 15 minutes or more with indoors. The equivalent of that with the delta beria is one second. This means people need to take extra steps to stay healthy but many people remain unvaccinated and lack trust in the vaccine. The FDA approved vaccines in the U. S. For emergency use but they haven't fully approved them. This may be contributing to people being hesitant according to CNN. If more than half of the population remains unvaccinated, the country will be left with two options. Either masking back up or closing businesses down. It's always recommended you take any measure you can to stay safe any time you go out

Video above: Experts Urge Non-Vaccinated People To Stay Away From Bars and Restaurants for NowThe Department of Veterans Affairs will require many of its frontline health workers to be vaccinated, the agency announced on Monday, making it the first area of the federal government to require shots among some of its workers.It was a major step from the administration toward backing vaccine requirements, which it had until now been reluctant to support."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 in a news release. "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. With this mandate, we can once again make — and keep — that fundamental promise."The VA said four employees had recently died of COVID-19, all of whom were unvaccinated — and at least three of those deaths were due to the Delta variant. Employees will receive four hours of paid administrative leave after demonstrating they have been vaccinated.Press secretary Jen Psaki said the White House supported the call made Monday by a large collective of medical associations that vaccines be mandated for all U.S. health personnel."These actions, in our view, are meant to keep patients and employees safe and in fact, I expect our own federal health care providers may look at similar requirements as they do with other vaccines," she said.The New York Times was first to report on the move.

Video above: Experts Urge Non-Vaccinated People To Stay Away From Bars and Restaurants for Now

The Department of Veterans Affairs will require many of its frontline health workers to be vaccinated, the agency announced on Monday, making it the first area of the federal government to require shots among some of its workers.

It was a major step from the administration toward backing vaccine requirements, which it had until now been reluctant to support.

"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 in a news release. "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. With this mandate, we can once again make — and keep — that fundamental promise."

The VA said four employees had recently died of COVID-19, all of whom were unvaccinated — and at least three of those deaths were due to the Delta variant. Employees will receive four hours of paid administrative leave after demonstrating they have been vaccinated.

Press secretary Jen Psaki said the White House supported the call made Monday by a large collective of medical associations that vaccines be mandated for all U.S. health personnel.

"These actions, in our view, are meant to keep patients and employees safe and in fact, I expect our own federal health care providers may look at similar requirements as they do with other vaccines," she said.

was first to report on the move.

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