A federal judge has temporarily allowed health care workers in New York to apply for religious exemptions to the state's Covid-19 vaccine mandate, according to an order.
US District Judge David Hurd made the ruling on Tuesday, granting a preliminary injunction that allows health care workers to apply for religious exemptions considered by their employers.Hurd stated that the state Department of Health is"barred from interfering in any way with the granting of religious exemptions from Covid-19 vaccination going forward, or with the operation of exemptions already granted.
At the time of the deadline, about 92% of hospital staff statewide had been vaccinated.Employer vaccine mandates are growing more popular but opposition remainsThe health care workers protesting the vaccine mandate did so because they objected to being forced to take vaccines that used"fetal cell lines" from"procured abortions.
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