Boosters at Ninth Circuit, Courts Respond to Omicron (1)

Staff and attorneys appearing in-person in the nation’s largest federal appeals court will have to get their booster “as soon as eligible” to be considered fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit updated its definition of “fully vaccinated” Dec. 21 to include a booster shot two months after receiving a Johnson & Johnson vaccine or six months after completing the two-dose regimen of the Pfizer or Moderna shots. The San Francisco-based circuit already required staff and attorneys appearing in-person to be fully vaccinated.

The new order comes against the backdrop of increasing Covid-19 ...