The Supreme Court on Thursday stopped the Biden administration from implementing a vaccine-or-test mandate on large businesses, but it did allow a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the country.
, the court’s three liberals were joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh in allowing a vaccine mandate on most health care workers to stand.
The ruling comes amid another COVID-19 surge in the United States, fueled by the hypertransmissive Omicron variant. According to tracking from the New York Times, there have been increases of 159 percent in cases, 82 percent in hospitalizations and 51 percent in deaths over the last 14 days. On Monday,
as medical systems struggle with the rising caseloads and staffing shortages brought by workers testing positive and isolating themselves.the court's liberals wrote , "When we are wise, we know not to displace the judgments of experts, acting within the sphere Congress marked out and under Presidential control, to deal with emergency conditions. Today, we are not wise. In the face of a still-raging pandemic, this Court tells the agency charged with protecting worker safety it may not do so in all the workplaces needed."
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