The Supreme Court on Friday wrestled with the power of federal agencies to impose vaccine mandates or vaccine-or-test requirements on tens of millions of workers.
The arguments played out as omicron cases are soaring and hospitals are filling up nationwide -- conditions that also jolted court operations.
"Exposure to COVID-19 on the job is the biggest threat to workers in OSHA's history," she said. The agency has estimated that it's vaccine-or-testing rule would save 6,500 lives and prevent 250,000 hospitalizations in just the first six months.Protesters hold signs reading my body my choice, stop medical tyranny, and more, at City Hall in Boston, Dec. 20, 2021.
"That was 50 years ago that you're saying Congress acted. I don't think you had COVID in mind," Roberts said of the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act."That was almost closer to the Spanish Flu than it is to today's problem." Barrett suggested that legal requirements that HHS ensure long-term care facilities have infection control programs seems to explicitly authorize the mandate, but she was less certain about other types of facilities.
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