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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 15, 2021

A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals today reinstated the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers in 26 states, saying the lower court did not have authority to apply its stay nationwide but only to the 14 states that had sued: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia. The administration’s mandate requires that health care facilities vaccinate staff against the coronavirus or lose funding from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which administers two large government health care programs. Yahoo News has the story from Reuters.