Vaccine Exemption Bids for Health-Care Workers to Spark Lawsuits

The Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health-care workers could spark an uptick in litigation challenging the denial of medical and religious exemptions to the controversial rule.

The interim regulation from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires more than 17 million employees to be fully vaccinated by Jan. 4, 2022. But it also allows workers to forgo the shots if they have valid religious objections or medical reasons.

A federal court in Missouri on Nov. 29 blocked the Biden administration from enforcing the vaccine mandate for health-care workers in 10 states. The preliminary injunction by the U.S. District Court for ...