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posted by martyb on Thursday December 02 2021, @03:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the liberty-or-death dept.

Judge blocks Biden vaccine rule, citing “liberty interests of the unvaccinated”

A federal judge yesterday blocked a Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate for 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 to receive the second vaccine 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 US, of which 2.4 million are unvaccinated. The Biden vaccine rule is being challenged by the attorneys general from Louisiana, Montana, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. The Republican AGs' lawsuit was filed against CMS and the US Department of Health and Human Services.

The preliminary injunction they won applies nationwide except for 10 states that "are already under a preliminary injunction order dated November 29, 2021, issued by the Eastern District of Missouri," a court order said. Those states are Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

What states did not participate in this lawsuit and were not covered by the earlier preliminary injunction — i.e. got swept into this decision?

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Opportunist on Thursday December 02 2021, @05:47AM

    by Opportunist (5545) on Thursday December 02 2021, @05:47AM (#1201392)

    Did you just introduce a new argument and berate me for not countering it pre-emptively?

    Gibraltar is experiencing an increase in cases like pretty much all of Europe right now. They have a significant number of new cases, by far not the most right now per capita, but it's really high.

    On the other hand, the last day when more than one person died from Covid there was in February. now, of course Gibraltar is a small country and deaths are by definition discreet since it's impossible to half-die, but considering that of the roughly 100 people who died in Gibraltar, less than 10 of them died since the onset of the vaccinations, I dare say there might be some sort of connection, don't you think?

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