Is it legal to mandate Covid vaccines? In many circumstances, yes
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN
For those who are refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine, there are a lot of legal ways for public and private actors to make that decision painful.
Such vaccine requirements will undoubtedly be challenged in court and a few already have. But so far, as long as those vaccine mandates have been crafted with appropriate religious and medical exemptions, courts have been unwilling to intervene to block them.
“The overall consensus is that in most situations, mandates are legally permissible,” said Wendy Parmet, a law professor and the director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law.
“That case is a real problem for vaccine mandate skeptics,” said Nicholas Bagley, a University of Michigan law professor who specializes in administrative and health care law.
For employers, almost anything goes for vaccine mandates for workers
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Some companies have instituted straight-up requirements for vaccines for their employees, with those employees refusing to comply being shown the door. Other employers have given workers a choice: get the vaccine, or subject yourself to an onerous set of rules, like weekly tests, mask requirements and social distancing demands.
Many public employers, including several federal agencies, are adopting that latter approach.
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As coronavirus surges, GOP lawmakers are moving to limit public health powers
Frances Stead Sellers and Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post
July 25, 2021
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