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Nearly 300,000 More Federal Health Workers Are Ordered To Be Vaccinated

The Department of Health and Human Services will require nearly a third of its employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine while the Department of Veterans Affairs expanded its vaccination mandate.
Xavier Becerra, then nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, puts on his protective mask at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in February.

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 its vaccine requirement to more employees, contractors and volunteers, the agencies announced.

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