OSHA to End Private Vaccine Mandate After Supreme Court Ruling

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Facts

  • The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will withdraw a mandate requiring private businesses with more than 100 employees to be vaccinated against COVID or tested weekly.1
  • SCOTUS blocked the administration's vaccine-or-test requirement for businesses in a 6-3 ruling in January, stating that OSHA can regulate occupational dangers, but not 'public health more broadly.'.2
  • The mandate would have affected 80 million US workers.2

Sources: 1Daily Caller and 2Axios.

Narratives

  • Right narrative, as provided by FOX News. SCOTUS has saved Americans from an unprecedented assault on constitutional liberties, but the battle against governmental overreach continues.
  • Left narrative, as provided by Atlantic. This reveals how the right-wing's crusade against vaccination has politicized the judiciary. It will harm public health.