Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is suing the Biden administration again over its COVID-19 vaccine mandates, this time leading a coalition of other attorneys general against the mandate for healthcare workers, known as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services mandate. He took the lead along with the attorneys general of Montana and Louisiana in a 69-page complaint, which was joined by 13 other states.
Brnovich said in a statement, “The unlawful mandate for facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is ‘causing havoc in the healthcare labor market’ across the nation – especially in rural communities – and does not account for the pandemic’s changing circumstances.”
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for large businesses last month, but left the mandate for healthcare workers in place. The attorneys general argue that since that decision, circumstances have changed. The Biden administration said the reason for the mandate was due to the delta variant surging. But the milder Omicron variant now accounts for 99.9 percent of COVID-19 cases in the country. When the mandate was implemented on Nov. 6, 2021, 98.7% of all COVID-19 cases were the delta variant.
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