
Knudsen said the requirement could affect as many as 10 million health care workers and suppliers across the nation, and that CMS estimated that 2.4 million were unvaccinated when it issued the IFR. It was not immediately clear exactly how many workers were affected by the mandate. Those require participating healthcare facilities to “develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that all staff are fully vaccinated for COVID-19,” according to Knudsen’s office. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) take immediate action to repeal its interim final rule (IFR) and state surveyor guidance of November 2021. The current petition was filed under the Administrative Procedures Act requesting CMS and the U.S. “The Biden administration should have never imposed this mandate, and CMS should now throw it in the trash bin where it belongs.” “The mandate has limited many patients’ access to needed medical care and imposed substantial costs on patients and healthcare workers without any corresponding benefits,” Knudsen said. Breakthrough infections are common, and studies increasingly show heightened health risks associated with the vaccines.
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“But evidence available at that time, and evidence that has emerged since, demonstrates that full vaccination doesn’t prevent infection or transmission. “The Biden administration relied on a purported emergency to sidestep its normal requirements and rush through its flagrantly unconstitutional mandate,” Knudsen said in the news release.

The other states involved are: Louisiana, Tennessee, Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.

The mandate violates the rights of health care workers and worsened medical staffing shortages in rural and western states, said Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, who is leading the group. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) stop requiring shots and boosters for physicians and other clinicians of health care facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs. A coalition of states has requested the administration of President Joe Biden and the U.S.
