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Senate To Vote To Overturn Biden Vaccine Mandate For Health Workers

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Washington DC, Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas has introduced a bill to repeal the requirement that health care workers get vaccinated or get fired. Hospitals and clinics can lose their Medicare and Medicaid payments if they don’t comply with the edict. Dr. Marshall now has enough cosponsors to force a floor vote, likely in early January.

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Health Care First Responder Loan Forgiveness Resolution Passes Assembly Unanimously

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Ridgewood NJ,  A resolution sponsored by Assemblyman Christopher DePhillips and Assemblywoman Serena DiMaso today passed the Assembly by a vote of 80-0.

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Nursing Homes Need to Comply with Coronavirus Notification Requirements

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WAYNE NJ,  Amid reports that the state’s long-term care facilities are failing to properly notify staff, caregivers and families of COVID-19 outbreaks in their facilities, Assemblyman Kevin J. Rooney is calling on the Department of Health to force compliance with their updated directives and state law.
Under state law that went into effect in February, nursing homes must have outbreak response plans that include policies regarding notifying residents, staff and families. The law was in response to an adenovirus outbreak at a Wanaque nursing home that killed 11 children.

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Christie stands by mandatory quarantine for health care workers treating Ebola

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Christie stands by mandatory quarantine for health care workers treating Ebola

OCTOBER 26, 2014, 8:50 AM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014, 4:48 PM
BY MELISSA HAYES AND CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITERS | 
THE RECORD

Governor Christie on Sunday defended the 21-day quarantine for health care workers returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, as the nurse who became the first target of the policy continued to criticize her treatment from an isolated tent by University Hospital in Newark.

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Christie speaking in Toms River Thursday.

“We’ve taken this action and I have absolutely no second thoughts about it,” Christie said on “Fox News Sunday” in response to a question about concerns raised by Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was quarantined upon landing at Newark Liberty Airport on Friday, having returned from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.

Hickox, who lives in Maine and worked for Doctors Without Borders, complained that the new state protocols were disorganized, and said she had no symptoms and should not be held and treated like a criminal in a first-person account published in the Dallas Morning News on Saturday.

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