A federal judge Tuesday blocked New York state from mandating healthcare workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Prior to his resignation in August, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the mandate, prompting more than a dozen healthcare professionals to request a court enjoinder, per Just the News.
The vaccine mandate requires hospital staff and employees of long-term care facilities to be vaccinated in order to continue working.
The lawsuit argues that the 17 medical professionals have religious beliefs which compel them to “refuse vaccination with the available Covid-19 vaccines, all of which employ aborted fetus cell lines in their testing, development, or production.”
Indeed, Judge David Hurd of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York granted the temporary halt Tuesday morning.
“The vaccine mandate is suspended,” his order reads. The state Department of Health is “barred from taking any action, disciplinary or otherwise, against the licensure, certification, residency, admitting privileges or other professional status or qualification of any plaintiffs on account of their seeking or having obtained a religious exemption from mandatory Covid-19 vaccination.”
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need to suspend it for everybody.
Wow.. With the # of judges out there, whove BACKED these tyrannical over reaches, i feared THIS JUDGE would be just like them..
GOOD FOR HIM.
There is at least (probably the only) one federal judge with an ounce of brains/intelligence. If you are vaccinated, you “should” be protected. If you are not vaccinated, the only one at “risk” is you (according to the gubment and liberals). Your vaccination status has NO impact on your ability to acquire and transmit the “deadly virus”. It’s the same for both groups.
What’s the bet, biiden and co, call for THIS judge to get replaced.