CDC Reveals COVID Shot Mandates Backfired
New state-level data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that the Biden administration’s COVID-19 shot mandates for federal workers and employees of large corporations during 2021-2023 did not influence vaccine uptake and, in fact, reduced uptake of COVID shot boosters and influenza vaccines. The mandates, instituted in 2021, forced […]
Study Finds Mask Wearing Reduced the Risk of COVID by Only Five Percent
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, societies throughout the world have been divided on the efficacy of face coverings to prevent influenza or influenza-like-illness (ILI), such as COVID. However, research conducted by the independent Cochrane, a charitable medical research organization based in London, England appears to have put to rest this longstanding dispute. Published earlier this year, […]
Supreme Court Holds Special Session to Rule on Federal COVID Vaccine Mandate
On Jan. 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will hold a special session to hear oral arguments in a group of cases challenging the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more employees and for healthcare workers who work in a facility that receives funding from the Centers […]
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against COVID Restrictions on Catholic, Jewish Services in New York
On the eve of Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) published a ruling that granted an emergency temporary injunction blocking the enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions on attendance at religious services in churches and synagogues located in specific areas of New York as outlined in an Oct. 6, 2020 […]
New York Bar Calls for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate and Promotion
Opinion | The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) House of Delegates approved resolutions on Nov. 7, 2020 that included urging the state to consider mandating a COVID-19 vaccine once “scientific consensus” emerges that it is safe, effective and necessary.1 The NYSBA also called for a number of other legal reforms and public health measures related […]
Judge Denies Injunction of NY Law Repealing Religious Vaccine Exemption
On Aug. 23, 2019, New York State Supreme Court Judge Denise Hartman issued an Opinion upholding a law passed by the New York State Legislature and signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on June 13, 2019 repealing the legal right of parents to obtain a religious exemption vaccination for their children to attend school and daycare […]
