President Biden on Tuesday officially revoked COVID-19 vaccination mandates for federal workers and contractors who had already been embroiled in lawsuits preventing compliance.
The orders, issued in September 2021, will end on May 12, Biden said in an executive order. This resolution is expected following an announcement by the White House earlier this month and will coincide with the end of the COVID public health emergency on May 11.
The vaccination order is no longer mandatory because the U. S. is not required to do so. U. S. is no longer in the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the order says, and the fitness formula is more capable of responding to long-term increases in cases than when the order Biden also noted that 98% of federal personnel complied with the mandate by receiving a vaccine dose or initiating the procedure to obtain a waiver, in January 2022.
“Given this progress and based on the most recent direction from our public fitness experts, we no longer require a government-wide vaccination requirement for federal workers or federally specified protective protocols for federal contractors,” the order says. “Vaccination remains a vital tool for Americans from serious illness, but we can now move beyond those federal requirements. “
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