of course, this decision to strike down the other vaccine mandate probably couldn t come at a worse time for the administration because they re dealing with the surge in omicron cases, they re trying to ramp up testing and give ow free masks potentially starting next week, so it s a big blow for the white house in their efforts to get more people vaccinated. yeah, kaitlan collins, appreciate it. thank you. joining us is kathleen sebelius who served as secretary of health and human services in the obama administration. i m wondering what your takeaway was from the ruling? well, i don t think there s any question that the supreme court ruling that osha, the occupational safety agency under the department of labor could not issue the rule that they did is not only disappointing but pretty scary. osha has workplace safety as their mission. and they issued what they called temporary orders given the rare circumstances of real danger presented by an unvaccinated person approximate to a
funding. while the white house is touting this as good news that came out of the decision today, it affects far fewer millions of people than the other mandate does. about 2 million people we believe that will be affected by this. of course, this decision to strike down the other vaccine mandate probably couldn t come at a worse time for the administration because they re dealing with the surge in omicron cases, they re trying to ramp up testing and give ow free masks potentially starting next week, so it s a big blow for the white house in their efforts to get more people vaccinated. yeah, kaitlan collins, appreciate it. thank you. joining us is kathleen sebelius who served as secretary of health and human services in the obama administration. i m wondering what your takeaway was from the ruling? well, i don t think there s any question that the supreme court ruling that osha, the occupational safety agency under the department of labor could not issue the rule that they did is