5:47 p.m. ET, January 27, 2022
Health care workers covered by the Biden administration's vaccine mandate in 25 states and the District of Columbia are facing a Thursday deadline for receiving the first or primary shot of their immunization regime.
There is a later deadline for those in other states where the mandate was frozen until a January Supreme Court decision approved it.
The 25 states where covered health care workers must get their first or primary shots by the Jan. 27 deadline are: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Those health care workers must then be fully vaccinated by Feb. 28, according to the administration's guidance.
The mandate is being implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is under the US Department of Health and Human Services. It covers health care workers at facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid.
More context: Earlier this month the
Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden's vaccine and testing requirement aimed at large businesses, but it allowed a vaccine mandate for certain health care workers to go into effect nationwide.