Enlarge / President Joe Biden speaks about the authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 on November 03, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Drew Angerer )
A federal judge yesterday blocked a Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate with regard to health care workers, granting a request for preliminary injunction filed by Republican attorneys general from 14 states.
US District Judge Terry Doughty ruled that the government lacks authority to implement the rule that “requires the staff of twenty-one types of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare providers to receive one vaccine by December 6, 2021, and in order to receive the second vaccine simply by January 4, 2022. ” Providers that don’t comply face penalties, including “termination of the Medicare/Medicaid Provider Agreement. ”
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate regulates over 10. 3 million health care workers in the ALL OF US, of which 2. 4 million are unvaccinated. The Biden vaccine rule is being challenged by simply the attorneys general from Louisiana, Montana, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Kentucky, plus Ohio. The Republican AGs’ lawsuit was filed against CMS in addition to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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