Another lawsuit has been filed against the Biden administration over vaccine mandates, this time focusing on the rule that almost all health care workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Nov. 12, 2021 -- Another lawsuit has been filed against the Biden administration over vaccine mandates, this time focusing on the rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that almost all health care workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19.
“The CMS vaccine mandate threatens with job loss millions of healthcare workers who risked their lives in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to care for strangers and friends in their communities,”. “Critically, the CMS vaccine mandate also threatens to exacerbate an alarming shortage of healthcare workers, particularly in rural communities, that has already reached a boiling point.”
Employees of nursing homes, where so many deaths and infections occurred during the early days of the COVID pandemic, are among the health care workers required to get vaccinated. The New York Times, citing federal data, said about 73% of nursing home workers are vaccinated.Last week, five states sued to stop the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for organizations and companies with 100 or more employees. On Saturday, a three-judge panel for the U.S.
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