Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Reinstates COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...Y0pbhq%2BEnIQg%3D%3D

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in a policy reversal, announced on Dec. 28 that it would start enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate to facilities in half the U.S. states, where the mandate hasn’t been judicially enjoined.

CMS modified the compliance dates for the vaccine mandates. Facilities that receive Medicaid or Medicare funding must comply with the mandate’s first phase, meaning that all health care staff has to have received the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine by Jan. 27, 2022—or 30 days after the CMS memorandum (pdf) was issued.

Those facilities will have to comply with the CMS mandate’s second phase, meaning health care workers need to receive the second dose by Feb. 28, 2022, according to the memo.

Earlier this month, a CMS spokesperson told The Epoch Times that it suspended enforcement of the vaccine mandate for health care workers “pending future developments in litigation.” It came after several courts issued injunctions against the rule.

But now, according to its latest directive, a health care facility will have to show that “policies and procedures are developed and implemented for ensuring all facility staff” under the agency’s mandate “regardless of clinical responsibility or patient or resident contact are vaccinated for COVID-19,” the memo stipulates.

The facility also must show that “100 percent of staff have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, or have a pending request for, or have been granted a qualifying exemption, or identified as having a temporary delay as recommended by the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],” CMS’s directive says.

If fewer than 100 percent of staff are compliant with the mandate, “the facility is non-compliant under the rule,” according to CMS. “The facility will receive notice of their non-compliance with the 100 percent standard. A facility that is above 80 percent and has a plan to achieve a 100 percent staff vaccination rate within 60 days would not be subject to additional enforcement action.”

Under the mandate, a facility that isn’t in compliance with the rule will be at risk of losing its federal Medicare or Medicaid funding.

The CMS vaccine mandate will now affect the following states: 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.

Meanwhile, the guidance doesn’t currently apply in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming, according to CMS.

In states where the vaccine mandate can’t be enforced, CMS surveyors “should not undertake any efforts” to bring facilities under compliance, the memo says.

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Under the mandate, a facility that isn’t in compliance with the rule will be at risk of losing its federal Medicare or Medicaid funding.

I know it won't happen... but if I ran a hospital I would just say, fine, we won't take Medicare or Medicaid funding. Those patients can go elsewhere. The SHTF when they are left out on the curb, but they can go on the local news and say it's the governments choice not to allow these patients to be treated.

I'm fully expecting fairly soon all recipients of Medicare or Medicaid will be required to be vaccinated in order to continue to receive the benefit.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
I'm fully expecting fairly soon all recipients of Medicare or Medicaid will be required to be vaccinated in order to continue to receive the benefit.

Then I guess my wife and I will be screwed, because we absolutely will not have ourselves injected with these ineffective, if not counter-effective, experimental "vaccines." Period.

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
CDC Lab Alert.

Those conspiracy theorists, seem to have been correct.
We cannot tell the difference between COVID-19 and the Flu with the RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 Testing.

And so it would seem some, quite possibly many of those positive COVID tests since February 2020, could have been influenza.

My only question is why wasn’t this front page news on 07/21/2021?

Edited to add: I guess it was in the news.
Reuters did a Fact Check.
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“ Level: Laboratory Alert

After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, the assay first introduced in February 2020 for detection of SARS-CoV-2 only.”

“In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.”

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Can you help highlight the text that indicates the PCR test can't distinguish between flu and covid? CDC is encouraging labs to adopt a method that can but it's not clear to me that the PCR test is not capable.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
I'm fully expecting fairly soon all recipients of Medicare or Medicaid will be required to be vaccinated in order to continue to receive the benefit.

Then I guess my wife and I will be screwed, because we absolutely will not have ourselves injected with these ineffective, if not counter-effective, experimental "vaccines." Period.

I'm right there with ya.

"If science can't be questioned it's not science anymore it's propaganda & that's the truth" - Aaron Rogers 12/28/2021

Again, there is evidence the spike protein itself causes vascular damage in some people. The mRNA vaccines trigger your body to produce a lot of spike proteins so that your immune system learns to resist them. If you are susceptible to this kind of vascular damage, then either the vaccine OR COVID infection could cause it.

Twitter Suspends mRNA Inventor Dr. Robert Malone

After months of providing valuable Covid-19 information that runs counter to the official narrative, Twitter has finally banned Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA technology.

Malone, who will appear on the Joe Rogan show Thursday according to associate Ed Dowd (one of four contributors to the Malone doctrine), had more than 520,000 followers. He has been an outspoken critic of both mRNA vaccines, as well as the abysmal failures of policymakers worldwide in responding to the pandemic.

He was not warned or provided an opportunity to delete any offending tweets - instead he was "just suspended," Dowd continued.

Here's Malone's last tweet - sharing an article which claims that the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine does 'more harm than good.'



https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...tor-dr-robert-malone

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Originally posted by konata88:

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.”

Can you help highlight the text that indicates the PCR test can't distinguish between flu and covid? CDC is encouraging labs to adopt a method that can but it's not clear to me that the PCR test is not capable.

Perhaps new reading glasses are in order? It's right there above what you wrote. Or, if you read that on the first pass, perhaps explain what you believe "... facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses" means?

The people running Twitter are so pathetic.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
The people using and those running Twitter are so pathetic.

Little column A, little column B....

Please watch this video.



https://rumble.com/vqx3kb-the-...-harm-than-good.html

Pfizer's own 6 month report data on its COVID-19 inoculation shows that greater illness and death in the inoculation arm than the placebo arm. Plus, poor trial design, missing data, underpowered studies, passive surveillance and more. For the PDF of this presentation visit: https://www.canadiancovidcarea...more-harm-than-good/

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Originally posted by stickman428:
Does this mean the winter of death is on hold? It had such a promising name.

Anyone know of an interesting/creative "Winter of Death" t-shirt I can buy. Yeah, I enjoy trolling.

I can't open that. Any transcription anywhere?

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by konata88:

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.”

Can you help highlight the text that indicates the PCR test can't distinguish between flu and covid? CDC is encouraging labs to adopt a method that can but it's not clear to me that the PCR test is not capable.

Perhaps new reading glasses are in order? It's right there above what you wrote. Or, if you read that on the first pass, perhaps explain what you believe "... facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses" means?

That text only advises labs to adopt methods that can detect and differentiate. It doesn't indicate that current methods are unable to do so.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
I can't open that. Any transcription anywhere?

pdf here: https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/

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Originally posted by bryan11:

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Originally posted by 6guns:
I can't open that. Any transcription anywhere?

pdf here: https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/

direct link to the pdf:
click me

I did provide a link directly to the CDC document, so all could read and interpret.
I try to always do this as news links can mislead as they did in this instance.

konata88
I added this to my post and did not delete it as someone had already made reference to it.
Perhaps I should have just deleted it, sorry for the confusion.

My only question is why wasn’t this front page news on 07/21/2021?

Edited to add: I guess it was in the news.
Reuters did a Fact Check.
Link

That CCCA video is very good. I noted a couple of things that may not perfect (questionable statistical relevance) but overall very good information. I want to study it more - I printed out the slide version.

I would love to see that reviewed in Congress and having Biden and Fauci address the concerns and questions contained here.