Federal judge halts vaccine mandate
By HME News Staff
Updated 9:34 AM CST, Thu December 9, 2021
WASHINGTON – A federal judge in Georgia has temporarily halted the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors across the country, AAHomecare reports. The vaccine requirement does not apply to HME providers. The action puts a hold on a Sept. 9 Executive Order requiring federal contractors and their subcontractors to comply with workplace safety guidelines developed by a federal task force that, ultimately, mandated that their employees be fully vaccinated by Jan. 18, 2022. This action follows two other recent developments pausing proposed federal vaccination requirements that could have impacted the HME community and other health care providers. On Nov. 30, a federal judge in Louisiana blocked implementation of a CMS Interim Final Rule mandating that certain health care facilities become fully vaccinated by Jan. 4, 2022; and on Nov. 19, OSHA suspended further implementation of their Emergency Testing Standard laying out vaccination and testing requirements for employers with 100 or more employees. AAHomecare will continue to monitor the status of these proposals.
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