Hospitals brace as deadlines loom from a vaccine mandate
- Health care workers in two dozen states must be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by March 15 after a Supreme Court decision last week, a ruling that has left some already understaffed hospital systems bracing to possibly lose workers.
- The new guidance was issued Friday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services after the court upheld President Biden's vaccine mandate for health care workers.
- It will affect about 10 million people at about 76,000 health care facilities participating in the Medicaid and Medicare program, including hospitals and long-term care facilities.
- Experts say mandates are effective in persuading more people to become vaccinated, which they say is essential to helping prevent the spread of the virus.
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Cases by State
| States | Confirmed | Deceased |
|---|---|---|
| California | 7,293,242 | 78,043 |
| Texas | 5,679,310 | 77,515 |
| Florida | 5,196,718 | 62,504 |
| New York | 4,594,182 | 62,672 |
| Illinois | 2,709,474 | 31,943 |
| Pennsylvania | 2,506,602 | 38,767 |
| Ohio | 2,439,205 | 31,245 |
| Georgia | 2,188,320 | 32,072 |
| North Carolina | 2,147,777 | 20,037 |
| Michigan | 2,082,983 | 31,275 |
| New Jersey | 2,025,616 | 30,315 |
| Tennessee | 1,653,144 | 21,705 |
| Arizona | 1,645,694 | 25,395 |
| Massachusetts | 1,503,398 | 21,208 |
| Indiana | 1,490,496 | 20,500 |
| Virginia | 1,419,883 | 15,835 |
| Wisconsin | 1,415,098 | 11,825 |
| South Carolina | 1,236,732 | 15,029 |
| Missouri | 1,224,211 | 16,996 |
| Minnesota | 1,193,504 | 11,177 |
| Colorado | 1,156,371 | 10,726 |
| Washington | 1,105,622 | 10,230 |
| Alabama | 1,088,370 | 16,756 |
| Louisiana | 1,037,249 | 15,246 |
| Kentucky | 1,027,069 | 12,639 |
| Maryland | 913,464 | 12,866 |
| Oklahoma | 852,791 | 12,927 |
| Utah | 802,780 | 3,997 |
| Arkansas | 702,483 | 9,462 |
| Mississippi | 665,544 | 10,690 |
| Iowa | 664,910 | 8,317 |
| Connecticut | 662,425 | 9,670 |
| Kansas | 660,599 | 7,293 |
| Nevada | 601,682 | 8,687 |
| Oregon | 549,942 | 5,908 |
| New Mexico | 425,920 | 6,205 |
| Nebraska | 402,489 | 3,548 |
| West Virginia | 396,343 | 5,576 |
| Idaho | 344,412 | 4,282 |
| Rhode Island | 320,617 | 3,215 |
| New Hampshire | 251,441 | 2,109 |
| Delaware | 232,132 | 2,440 |
| Montana | 218,047 | 2,964 |
| South Dakota | 203,137 | 2,559 |
| North Dakota | 202,333 | 2,102 |
| Alaska | 188,812 | 1,051 |
| Hawaii | 184,767 | 1,126 |
| Maine | 162,940 | 1,688 |
| Wyoming | 132,145 | 1,601 |
| Washington | 126,187 | 1,263 |
| Puerto Rico | 107,158 | 1,272 |
| Vermont | 93,492 | 507 |
| Guam | 7,106 | 118 |
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