U.S. Rebuts Arguments Against Lifting Shot-or-Test Rule Stay

Opponents of the Biden administration’s emergency Covid-19 shot-or-test rule ignored its benefits when they argued against dissolving a court order blocking a measure that will save an average of 77 lives per day, government lawyers said in a brief.

The administration told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that the regulation will help employers by reducing the frequency of coronavirus infections in the workplace in exchange for “modest” costs to implement it. The Fifth Circuit, which blocked the rule Nov. 6, ignored all of the standard’s benefits, government lawyers said in a brief filed late Friday.

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