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Dec. 15, 2021, 5:24 PM

Health Worker Vaccine Mandate Ordered to Resume in Half of U.S.

Allie Reed
Allie Reed
Reporter
Alexis Kramer
Alexis Kramer
Reporter

The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday ordered that the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health-care workers resume in about half the country while an appeal moves forward.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the administration’s request for a stay on a preliminary injunction as it applies to the 14 states that brought the lawsuit challenging the mandate. But the appeals court granted a stay on the injunction in the rest of the states that it applied to.

A federal court in Louisiana had halted the health agency from enforcing the vaccine mandate Nov. 30 nationwide, except for ...

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