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Health worker vaccine mandate blocked in half the states

by KEVIN MCGILL and DAVID A. LIEB
| December 17, 2021 7:00 AM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday lifted a nationwide ban against President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for health care workers, instead blocking the requirement in only certain states and creating the potential for patchwork enforcement across the country.

The decision by the New Orleans-based 5th U...

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