California Will Not Mandate COVID Vaccination for Schoolchildren
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) confirmed earlier this month that children in that state will not be required to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in order to attend school. Governor Gavin Newsom originally announced that California would be the first state to require COVID shots for K-12 students attending public and private schools, but […]
New York’s COVID Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers Struck Down
The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers in New York has been overturned by the New York Supreme Court, which found that Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York Department of Health exceeded their authority when implementing the vaccine mandate. Siding with the plaintiffs, Medical Professionals for Informed Consent, Judge Gerard Neri ruled that […]
Appellate Court Blocks U.S. Government’s Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contract workers. The 2-1 decision by the court in New Orleans directly affects Indiana, Louisiana and Mississippi, while half of the other states have had their mandates blocked or partly blocked by other […]
Grand Jury in Florida May Investigate COVID Vaccine ‘Wrongdoing’
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said last week that he plans to petition the state’s Supreme Court to convene a grand jury to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” with regard to the COVID-19 vaccines, notably how the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines marketed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna/NIAID were developed, how they were used in Florida and any […]
U.S. House Repeals Military COVID Vaccine Mandate
In a Dec. 6, 2022 proposed compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year (FY) 2023 , the U.S. House of Representatives authorized $857.9 billion in spending for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and included a provision repealing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all military personnel instituted by the Biden […]
New York Court Reinstates City Workers Who Refused COVID Shots
Judge Ralph Porzio, a Superior Court judge in Staten Island ordered that 16 city sanitation workers who lost their jobs for rejecting the COVID-19 shot mandate be reinstated for work and receive back pay. The ruling does not affect the city’s mandate or the other approximate 1,700 workers who were fired for failing to follow […]