16 States File New Challenge To Biden Admin's Vaxx Mandate
Feb 8, 2022 17:11:22 GMT -5
Post by Honoria on Feb 8, 2022 17:11:22 GMT -5
16 States File New Challenge To Biden Admin's Health Care Worker COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, FEB 08, 2022 - 05:05 PM
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
Louisiana and 15 other states on Feb. 4 lodged a new legal challenge against the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, arguing that the dominance of the Omicron virus variant undercuts the justification for the mandate.
Approximately 10.4 million workers fall under the vaccination requirements, which apply to every facility that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding.
The Supreme Court lifted injunctions against the mandate on Jan. 13, finding in a 5–4 decision that the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had the authority to issue the rule requiring vaccination. The mandate took effect in 25 states in January and will take effect this month in the other 25 states, which had challenged the rule.
The rule, signed by Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, repeatedly references the danger the Delta virus variant poses to the unvaccinated, and says that vaccines “continue to be effective in preventing COVID-19 associated with the now-dominant Delta variant.”
Becerra had “good cause” to impose the rule without accepting comments, mandated in most circumstances under federal law, because of his “belief that any ‘further delay’ would endanger patient health and safety given the spread of the Delta variant and the upcoming winter season,” the nation’s top court ruled.
But as of mid-December 2021, the Omicron variant is the dominant strain in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another agency within HHS.
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BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, FEB 08, 2022 - 05:05 PM
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
Louisiana and 15 other states on Feb. 4 lodged a new legal challenge against the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, arguing that the dominance of the Omicron virus variant undercuts the justification for the mandate.
Approximately 10.4 million workers fall under the vaccination requirements, which apply to every facility that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding.
The Supreme Court lifted injunctions against the mandate on Jan. 13, finding in a 5–4 decision that the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had the authority to issue the rule requiring vaccination. The mandate took effect in 25 states in January and will take effect this month in the other 25 states, which had challenged the rule.
The rule, signed by Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, repeatedly references the danger the Delta virus variant poses to the unvaccinated, and says that vaccines “continue to be effective in preventing COVID-19 associated with the now-dominant Delta variant.”
Becerra had “good cause” to impose the rule without accepting comments, mandated in most circumstances under federal law, because of his “belief that any ‘further delay’ would endanger patient health and safety given the spread of the Delta variant and the upcoming winter season,” the nation’s top court ruled.
But as of mid-December 2021, the Omicron variant is the dominant strain in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another agency within HHS.
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