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SCOTUS Blocks OSHA Mandate, Okays For Healthcare

CNBC reports: The ruling came after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s emergency measure started to take effect. The mandate required that workers at businesses with 100 or more employees must get vaccinated or submit a negative Covid test weekly to enter the workplace. It also required unvaccinated workers to wear masks indoors at work. OSHA, which polices workplace safety …

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Vatican Issues Vaccine Mandate For Tourists And Staff

Religion News Service reports: The Vatican has tightened its COVID-19 regulations by requiring the use of FFP2 masks (similar to N95 masks) inside and making vaccinations and booster shots mandatory for employees and visitors wishing to enter the Vatican Museums and gardens. In an attached document, the Vatican also issued fines for people who do not respect the new regulations. …

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Arkansas Gov Urges Businesses To Defy OSHA Mandate

The Hill reports: Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) on Sunday said large businesses should not comply with the Biden administration’s “oppressive” vaccine or testing mandate. “This mandate of [the Occupational safety and Health Administration], the federal government, needs to be struck down. And that’s why we’re fighting against it. And I expect the Supreme Court, hopefully, to rule against the …

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Anti-Abortion Activists Claim DC Mayor Timed Start Of Vax Mandate To Ruin Their Annual March Against Roe

The Christian Post reports: The 49th annual March for Life is scheduled to take place on Jan. 21, six days after a vaccine mandate is set to take effect in Washington, D.C., where the march is held. The mandate will require those seeking to enter “restaurants, bars and nightclub establishments,” “indoor entertainment establishments,” and “indoor event and meeting establishments” to …

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WaPo: Justices Appear Skeptical Of OSHA Vax Mandate

The Washington Post reports: Conservative Supreme Court justices on Friday appeared skeptical that the Biden administration has legal authority to impose a broad vaccination-or-testing requirement on large employers. They seemed more in agreement with private businesses and Republican-led states that such policies need to be approved by Congress or implemented by state governments than a federal agency — in this …

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TODAY: Supreme Court Hears Cases On OSHA Mandate

The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court is taking up two major Biden administration efforts to bump up the nation’s vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases because of the omicron variant. The justices on the conservative-oriented court are hearing arguments Friday about whether to allow the administration to enforce a vaccine-or-testing requirement that applies to …

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USPS Seeks Temporary Waiver On Vaccine Mandate

The Washington Post reports: The U.S. Postal Service has asked federal labor officials for a temporary waiver from President Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, setting up a showdown on pandemic safety measures between the president and one of the government’s largest agencies. In a letter dated Jan. 4 to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Deputy Postmaster General Douglas A. Tulino …

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NYC Mayor-Elect To Keep De Blasio’s Vaccine Mandate

Gothamist reports: New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams will keep a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place for private-sector employers, embracing a policy previously established by outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio. Adams unveiled his plan to battle the winter surge at a news conference Thursday at Brooklyn Borough Hall, making the vaccine mandate a key part of his strategy, which he …

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Oklahoma Gov Loses Attempt To Block Vax Mandate

The Hill reports: An Oklahoma federal judge on Tuesday denied an attempt from the state to block the Department of Defense’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for National Guard members. In a 29-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot denied a motion from Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) and Attorney General John O’Connor to preliminarily enjoin the mandate, saying the plaintiffs’ claims …

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NYC’s Workplace Vaccine Mandate Goes Into Effect

The Associated Press reports: New York City’s sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace has taken effect amid a spike in coronavirus infections. Workers at roughly 184,000 businesses were required to show proof they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Monday. Businesses that don’t comply could face fines …

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DC To Require Proof Of Vax To Enter Most Businesses

The Washington Post reports: People 12 and older will be required to show proof of coronavirus vaccination to enter many businesses in D.C., including restaurants, starting in mid-January under rules that Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced on Wednesday. The change comes two days after Bowser announced a host of new restrictions to curb record-setting numbers of daily coronavirus cases …

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Anti-Mandate GOP House Rep Is Sick With Something

The Staten Island Advance reports: “After experiencing mild symptoms and a slight fever, Congresswoman Malliotakis, who is vaccinated, tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday. She is quarantining at home and is feeling well,” said Malliotakis’ spokeswoman. The spokeswoman told the Advance/SILive.com that Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) has not yet received a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The congresswoman has said …

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Bongino Still Hasn’t Quit Over Employer’s Vax Mandate

The Washington Post reports: Two months ago, Dan Bongino sounded ready to give up one of the best slots in conservative talk radio over his objection to his employer’s coronavirus vaccine mandate. “You can have me, or you can have the mandate, but you can’t have both,” he said on Oct. 18, threatening to stop hosting his three-hour program on …

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Memo: All Fox HQ Workers Must Be Vaxxed By Dec 27

Mediaite reports: Fox News employees in New York City will be required to have at least one coronavirus vaccination dose by Dec. 27 in order to work in person at the company’s headquarters. There will no longer be a testing requirement for Fox News employees in New York City. “All workers in NYC who perform in-person work at an office …

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DeSantis Predicts SCOTUS Will Give “Relief” From OSHA Mandate, Says He Hasn’t Gotten Booster Shot [VIDEO]

Florida Politics reports: “Well, first of all, on the OSHA mandate, I thought it was a terrible decision. This is just a three-judge panel. I thought the whole Circuit in the 6th would have certainly struck this down. “I do think we’re going to get positive relief from the U.S. Supreme Court on that,” DeSantis said on the Fox News …

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OSHA Mandate Gets New Deadline After Court Ruling

The Hill reports: In a statement released by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the administration said it was “gratified” by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit decision to reinstate its mandate. The Labor Department said in a statement on Saturday that “to provide employers with sufficient time to come into compliance,” it would not be …

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Texas AG Vows To Appeal OSHA Mandate To SCOTUS

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has pledged to take his fight against a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large businesses to the Supreme Court. That vow came after the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 vote that the mandate set by the Biden administration could go back into effect. In an opinion …

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Court Partially Revives Vax Mandate For Health Workers

The Hill reports: A federal appeals court on Wednesday effectively revived a Biden administration vaccine mandate for health workers at hospitals that receive federal funding in roughly half of the U.S. The procedural ruling by the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit temporarily scaled back a nationwide injunction put in place by a Louisiana-based federal judge …

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Fox News Doctor: Drop The Mandates And Allow This “Mild Infection To Circulate To Build Hybrid Immunity”

“At this point, it is time to move forward and allow this mild infection to circulate so we can continue to build that hybrid immunity: the combination of vaccine-induced and natural immunity, which is proven to be the most robust form of immunity that will continue to build that wall of protection.”-  Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier. Fox …

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SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To NY Vaccine Mandate

Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to New York’s refusal to allow religious exemptions to its mandate that certain healthcare workers in the state be vaccinated against COVID-19. Acting in two cases, the justices denied emergency requests for an injunction requiring the state to allow religious exemptions while litigation over the mandate’s legality continues in …

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