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The federal government is dramatically expanding the number of its workers that will be required to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

More than 25,000 employees of the Health and Human Services Department will be required to get a COVID-19 vaccine and the Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its vaccine requirement to more employees, contractors and volunteers, the agencies announced.

VA Secretary Denis McDonough told CBS This Morning that the updated mandate at his agency will affect 245,000 employees, in addition to 115,000 previously ordered to be vaccinated.

At HHS, workers at the Indian Health Service and the National Institutes of Health who come into contact, or have the potential to come into contact, with patients will be affected by the new vaccination requirement. Members of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps will also be included in case they are deployed for emergency purposes, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Thursday