WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to announce Wednesday that all nursing homes will have to require all staff be vaccinated against Covid to keep receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to announce Wednesday that all nursing homes will have to require all staff be vaccinated against Covid to keep receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding.

The new regulation requiring any nursing home participating in the Medicare or Medicaid programs to certify that all their workers are fully vaccinated will affect about 15,000 nursing homes, which employ more than 1.3 million people, an administration official said. About 60 percent of nursing home staff are already fully vaccinated, according to data from the CDC...

Nursing homes are heavily dependent on Medicare and Medicaid funds, and some have raised concern that they would lose staff if they required staff to be vaccinated in an already tight job market. But with a surge in Covid infections driven by the delta variant, the Biden administration has been looking to use whatever levers it has to pressure more Americans to get vaccinated.