A federal district court in Missouri issued an injunction Monday that temporarily blocks the controversial policy in ten Republican-led states.
Protesters in New York City are against vaccinations.
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Matthew T. Schelp agreed with the states that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not have the authority to issue its vaccine mandate without congressional approval.
Congress should authorize the rule because of the requirement that requires vaccines at all healthcare facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid, according to Schlep.
An area of state authority.
The judge ruled that the federal government was incorrect in claiming that the mandate is an emergency measure because it was not imposed until months after the vaccine became available.
As the litigation moves forward, the injunction only applies to Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.
A federal judge denied an injunction against the vaccine mandate in Florida last week, and a separate legal challenge brought by over a dozen additional states is still pending.
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The objective of protecting patients and healthcare workers from contracting COVID is laudable. The Court cannot allow the mandate to be enacted that lacks a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made.
The federal healthcare worker mandate is one of several vaccine orders the Biden administration has imposed, along with orders for federal employees and contractors and a vaccine-or-test mandate for all private employers with more than 100 employees. The mandates have drawn opposition from Republican-led states, and a lawsuit on Monday is part of a lot of litigation challenging them. The order for private employers has been temporarily blocked because of legal challenges that are focused on the federal contractor mandate.
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