The Supreme Court revised the transcript of Friday's oral arguments on the federal government's Covid-19 vaccine mandates after Justice Neil Gorsuch wrongly claimed that the flu kills hundreds of thousands annually.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was in September.
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The Supreme Court changed its transcript to show that Gorsuch said the flu kills hundreds, thousands of people each year.
In a case challenging the federal government's vaccine-or-test mandate for private employers, he asked the Solicitor General why Covid-19 vaccines should be made mandatory when vaccines for other diseases like the flu have not been made mandatory.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 12,000 and 52,000 Americans have died from the flu over the past decade.
The flu was likening to Covid-19 when it had a far higher death rate, as well as being criticized for saying "hundreds of thousands."
The Washington Post ruled that the claim that there are 100,000 children who are in serious condition and many on ventilators due to Covid-19 was "absurd" and "wildly incorrect".
According to the CDC, there have only been 84,582 total Covid-19 hospital admissions among those ages 17 years and younger since August 2020, and the Department of Health.
As litigation against the policies moves forward, the Supreme Court is considering whether to temporarily pause President Joe Biden's vaccine-or-test mandate for private employers and vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The private employer mandate may be blocked by the Supreme Court, with Chief Justice John Roberts likening the Biden administration's tactic of using multiple federal agencies to impose mandates to a "work-around" for a full federal mandate. The justices suggested they could potentially be more open to the narrower healthcare worker rule, however, and Justices said that while a coalition of Republican-led states have sued to block the mandate, the healthcare providers actually affected by it "in fact overwhelmingly appear to support" the policy.
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The vaccine mandate cases have not been ruled on yet by the Supreme Court, despite the challengers to the private employer rule asking that the court rule before parts of the policy started being enforced on Monday. The cases could be ruled on at any time.
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