Politico January 26, 2024
Chelsea Cirruzzo, Daniel Payne

The Biden administration says the facilities need to do more. Home executives say vaccine hesitancy requires a new government message.

Fewer than 4 in 10 nursing home residents have received the latest Covid shot — despite the carnage in the facilities since the disease first swept through in 2020.

The Biden administration and the care industry agree they share responsibility — but that hasn’t stopped them from blaming each other.

Xavier Becerra, the secretary of Health and Human Services, has held two meetings with representatives of the facilities since Dec. 21 to remind them that they must offer residents the shots. But nursing homes say the federal government needs to pay them more to administer the jabs — and Becerra...

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Topics: Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, HHS, Patient / Consumer, Post-Acute Care, Provider, Public Health / COVID
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