Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Sears, and Jason Miyares will be sworn in today, marking a sea-change of leadership in Virginia. More importantly, because actions ultimately matter, the three Republicans are already looking to take big steps toward fixing the mess left behind by Democrat Ralph Northam’s administration.
The Supreme Court came to a decision on the two Biden administration vaccine mandates, striking down the requirement for large businesses and upholding the requirement for healthcare workers.
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses but decided to let a separate regulation that requires health care workers to get a vaccine take effect.
A family in British Columbia says
they’re being evicted from a Vancouver Ronald McDonald House, where their four-year-old son is staying while undergoing treatment for leukemia, because they aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Maury County government will not comply with any OSHA mandate that forces an employee to be vaccinated against their will,” he said. “It should be noted that I am not anti-vaccine, but your healthcare is your business and I will willfully go to jail before forcing any of you to take the vaccine.”
Despite the FDA’s claim that it is committed to transparency, especially for COVID-19 emergency use authorizations (EUAs), the agency first requested 55 years to release the data supporting the approval of Comirnaty after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was led, and then asked for an extra 20 years to fully comply.
Virginia’s incoming Governor, Glenn Youngkin (R), and Attorney General, Jason Miyares (R), will join other Republican states and businesses in challenging the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates once they are sworn into office Saturday.
