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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.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 02 2021, @10:45PM (5 children)
This conversation is getting spread all over the place - but I mentioned half measures somewhere today.
If the health department had declared a real quarantine early on, I would have participated, willingly. All the stupid shit we have done instead of quarantining have been nothing more than feel-good nonsense.
I'm not here to make scared people feel good.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @02:03AM (1 child)
Lies lies and more lies. You were calling it no big deal and equating lockdowns and masks with tyranny. Very common conservative behavior, pretend after the fact that they weren't selfish, stupid, and or evil. I consider you a mix of all three, but ymmv.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @05:14AM
When did you stop abusing your children?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @02:53AM
*eyeball roll*
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday December 03 2021, @03:36PM (1 child)
I'm not scared. I am vaccinated. Wear a mask. And practice social distancing.
I have little to fear.
Other people might engage in foolish behavior (amatuer skydiving without a backup parachute) and are not scared.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 03 2021, @03:45PM
I would never skydive without a reversing parachute.