A recent suit was filed Monday in Louisiana on behalf of 12 states, arriving just shortly of a previous lawsuit filed in Missouri representing 10 states.
The federal lawsuit challenges the Biden Administration’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers.
In addition to Louisiana, the more recent suit covers Montana, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia. The Missouri suit includes Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.
“The federal government will not impose medical tyranny on Louisiana’s people without my best fight,” Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said in a news release announcing the lawsuit.
Both lawsuits say the vaccine mandate threatens to drive away health care workers who don’t want to get vaccinated at a time when such workers are badly needed. They also contend the rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services violates federal law and unconstitutionally encroaches on states’ powers.
On Friday, the New Orleans based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put a stop to the vaccine mandate that claims businesses with more than 100 workers require employees to be vaccinated by Jan. 4th or wear masks and be tested weekly for Covid-19.
The Louisiana lawsuit calls the health care worker vaccine requirement a ‘one-size-fits-all’ sledgehammer.
The Biden Administration has not yet filed responses to either of the lawsuits.
These lawsuits come just after The White House stated they will be investing billions of dollars into the vaccine manufacturing capacity with the goal of producing at least one billion doses a year.
Many Americans are starting to question and point fingers at Biden and his Administration, stating this is just “A huge money making scam” to further take advantage of American citizens.
The investment will be announced rather soon, for the government to partner with industry to address immediate vaccine needs overseas and domestically to prepare for future pandemics.
Dr. David Kessler, who oversees vaccine distribution for the administration said, “The goal, in the case of a future pandemic, a future virus, is to have vaccine capability within six to nine months of identification of that pandemic pathogen. We need to have enough vaccines for all Americans.”
