{"id":239482,"date":"2021-07-28T07:46:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T07:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239482"},"modified":"2021-07-29T05:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T05:46:49","slug":"department-of-veterans-affairs-becomes-the-first-federal-agency-to-issue-vaccine-mandate-115000-frontline-workers-have-eight-weeks-to-get-the-shot-or-face-getting-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239482","title":{"rendered":"Department of Veterans Affairs becomes the first federal agency to issue vaccine mandate: 115,000 frontline workers have eight weeks to get the shot or face getting FIRED"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>President Biden confirmed the VA would require all staffers to get the shot\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>115,000 frontline staffers will have two months to get inoculated\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Biden said &#8216;all docs&#8217; would have to get the shot<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Comes amid nationwide spike of the Delta variant\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The move by the VA comes as dozens of medical groups called for mandatory vaccinations for health workers\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Geoff Earle \u2013 Daily Mail.com July 26, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Monday become the first federal agency to require its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden confirmed the move in a brief statement to reporters Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yes. Veteran Affairs is going to in fact require that all docs working in facilities are going to have to be vaccinated,&#8217; Biden said, following a report quoting his Veterans Affairs secretary regarding health care workers at the VA.<\/p>\n<p>Following the action, 115,000 staffers will have two months to get inoculated against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\"><strong>coronavirus<\/strong><\/a>, and face being fired if they do not oblige.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after\u00a0the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association and dozens of other medical groups joined in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/context\/medical-groups-issue-joint-statement-on-need-for-mandatory-vaccines-for-health-workers\/c91401fb-9d64-44fa-b863-624771ff7551\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\"><strong>statement<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0calling for mandatory vaccinations for health workers amid the spike in the Delta variant and rising infections in states with low vaccination rates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We call for all health care and long-term care employers to require their employees to be vaccinated against covid-19,&#8217; they wrote. &#8216;The health and safety of U.S. workers, families, communities, and the nation depends on it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Biden confirmed that &#8216;all docs&#8217; at the VA would be asked to get the shot ahead of his meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in the Oval Office \u2013 although the policy would in fact be more expansive within the VA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9827695\/Department-Veterans-Affairs-federal-agency-make-employees-vaccinated.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move comes amid calls for mandatory vaccinations for all health care workers. Soon virtually all U.S. government employees will face a stark choice: take the jab or lose your job  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239496,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239482\/revisions\/239496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}