A person's choice to decline vaccinations does not outweigh public health and safety requirements in medical settings, a federal judge ruled in a Montana case.
The Montana law made it illegal for a person to be denied services, goods or employment based on their vaccine statusA person's choice to decline vaccinations does not outweigh public health and safety requirements in medical settings, a federal judge ruled in aU.S.
The Montana Legislature passed the first-in-the-nation law in 2021, about a year into the pandemic as some people, businesses and Republican lawmakers were pushing back on health care measures enacted to prevent the spread of the virus that has now killed more than 1 million people in the United States. Just over 3,600 Montana residents have died from COVID-19, state officials say.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
Dr. Deborah Birx, former coronavirus response coordinator for the Trump Administration, testified Thursday before a congressional committee about early missteps in the pandemic. “Creating the sense among the American people that [COVID-19] would… have the fatalities equivalent to flu created a sense among the American people that this was not going to be a serious pandemic.”
The Montana law made it illegal for a person to be denied services, goods or employment based on their vaccine status. The law did not change vaccine requirements at schools or daycare facilities or eliminate a person's right to seek a religious or medical exemption. Republican lawmakers who supported the bill said it was needed in response to employers threatening to fire workers who would not get vaccinated.
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