The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule June 5 that formally ends vaccine or testing requirements for staff at long-term care facilities that participate in Medicare or Medicaid, effective Aug. Another federal order that mandated masks on public modes of transportation, including commercial flights, and in transit hubs such as airports and bus and train stations, also ended May 11, but it had not been enforced for more than a year due to a court order. Several states have barred or limited mask and vaccine orders and other requirements through legislation or executive action.Īt the national level, President Joe Biden's executive order requiring health care workers and federal executive branch employees to be vaccinated expired May 11. Some states and local governments maintained vaccination or masking orders for public employees and health care workers into 2023, but almost all such mandates had lapsed by May 11, when the federal government’s COVID-19 public health emergency ended. As those waves receded, pandemic restrictions largely subsided as well. With the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020, the closures, capacity limits and large-scale mask orders that marked earlier phases of the pandemic gave way to vaccine and testing mandates and more targeted face-covering rules, which many states extended or reinstated as the delta and omicron variants spread in 20. En español | Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, governors and health departments across the country issued orders and recommendations on the status of schools, businesses and public services.
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