Biden’s Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate Is On Hold, But Here Are Companies Requiring Shots Anyway:
in court, some companies are going ahead with vaccine requirements anyway—here are some of the businesses that have said their staffers must get the shot:... [+]
at Backus Hospital where 211 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine were delivered and being given to 30 hospital workers on the first day of vaccinations in Norwich, Connecticut on December 15, 2020.
A Gartner survey released Tuesday of 300 businesses showed 60% of employers are planning to proceed with Biden’s January 4, 2022 deadline anyway, 10% said they were taking a step back from their plans and 30% had not yet decided,Biden’s mandate, which requires employers with over 100 employees to require vaccines or weekly testing, was temporarily halted by a federal appeals court on November 6.
the decision to block the mandate on November 12, writing in the ruling the mandate is “fatally flawed” and “staggeringly overbroad.”The legal challenge over Biden’s vaccine mandate is now before a federal appeals court in Ohio, but many think it will end up before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has
other vaccine mandates in the past, but it is uncertain how they will rule on a requirement mandated by the federal government.
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