Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the U.S., will end May 11
. The government is also beginning the process of lifting shot requirements for Head Start educators, healthcare workers, and noncitizens at U.S. land borders.
Deeply polarizing at the time and the subject of numerous legal challenges—many of which were successful—the vaccination requirements were imposed by Biden in successive waves in late 2022 as the nation’s vaccination rate plateaued even amid the emergence of new, more transmissible variants of COVID-19.
Mandates remain for many employees of the National Institutes of Health, Indian Health Service and Department of Veterans Affairs—which implemented their own requirements for healthcare staff and others independent of the White House—will remain while those agencies review their own requirements, the administration said.
For more than a year, U.S. health officials have been eyeing a long-term response to COVID-19 that is more similar to the approach to influenza, with updated shots yearly targeted at the latest strains of the virus—particularly for the most vulnerable. But fewer than 56 million people in the U.S.
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