U.S. to Drop Most COVID Vaccine Mandates Next Week as Emergency Ends

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Most federal COVID vaccine mandates will be lifted next week, as the pandemic public health emergency ends on May 11.

“COVID continues to be a problem,” Jha said. “But our healthcare system or public health resources are far more able to respond to the threat that COVID poses to our country and do so in a way that does not cause problems with access to care for Americans.”

The vaccine mandates divided the country when Biden ordered them to try to prevent new coronavirus cases as highly transmissible variants were spreading. At one point, they covered more than 100 million workers, theSome employers, especially medical facilities, may choose to continue their own mandates, Jha noted. The hospital where he works has had a“Some of these emergency powers are just not necessary in the same way anymore,” Jha said.

 

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