The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) at the Department of Health and Human Services is requiring workers at health care facilities participating in Medicare or Medicaid to have received the necessary shots to be fully vaccinated – either two doses of Pfizer or Moderna, or one dose of Johnson & Johnson – by Jan. 4. The rule covers approximately 76,000 health care facilities and more than 17 million health care workers, according to the Biden administration.
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Despite the federal court order, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recommends that businesses still implement the vaccine and testing requirements. “Ultimately, the courts are going to decide, but employers still need to take this as a live ETS (emergency temporary standard) until it is definitively shut down,” Marc Freedman, the Chamber’s vice president of employment policy, told CNBC.