WASHINGTON -- Medicare will require nursing homes to report COVID-19 vaccination rates for residents and staff, the government said Tuesday. Medicare's move to sustain the pace of vaccinations comes as an initial effort to get shots to nursing homes across the country has wound down. Academic researchers believe that the virus most likely entered nursing homes through staffers who were infected in their communities and became unwitting carriers. Nursing homes are now required to report COVID-19 cases and deaths but not vaccinations. Nursing homes and other long-term care facilities have opened up family visits again after spending a year in lockdown.

Source: ABC News May 11, 2021 15:23 UTC