Federal Workers Face Jab-or-Job Choice Anew Under Vaccine Ruling

Federal workers will face renewed pressure to get Covid-19 shots or risk losing their jobs under a court ruling.

A federal appeals court on Thursday told a trial judge to throw out a challenge to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate covering 2.1 million U.S. government civilian employees. The judge in Texas had previously blocked the presidential order nationwide.

The Fifth Circuit ruling comes against a backdrop of sharply lower coronavirus infections and hospitalizations nationwide, and echoes the U.S. Supreme Court ruling greenlighting Biden’s similar vaccine requirement for all workers in federally funded health-care facilities.

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