Bloomberg Law
July 28, 2021, 9:35 AM UTCUpdated: July 28, 2021, 7:23 PM UTC

Calls for Covid Jab Mandates in Health Jobs Add to Staffing Woes (1)

Tony Pugh
Tony Pugh
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Allie Reed
Allie Reed
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Lesley Torres
Lesley Torres
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Staffing concerns are thwarting nursing homes—the hub of Covid-19 spread—from mandating vaccines, illustrating the difficulty of ensuring widespread jabs everywhere.

Questions are mounting daily about the legality and practicality of requiring people to get vaccinated—whether it’s to get on an airplane, attend a packed indoor concert, go to college, or remain employed. The careful messaging from representatives across the health industry, with a few notable holdouts, shows that mandates are problematic in sectors with staffing woes but may be the only answer if people don’t get the shot voluntarily.

The leading nursing home trade group, American Health Care Association/National Center ...

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