The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and several other state-run health care providers dropped their vaccination requirements for employees on Monday after a federal judge blocked the enforcement of a federal rule requiring such mandates.
Arkansas Children’s notified its employees that it had also lifted its vaccine requirement in light of the preliminary injunction issued in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Arkansas and nine other states.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri said in the ruling that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services exceeded its authority when it issued the emergency rule Nov. 4.
Read more here: Court injunction spurs Arkansas medical facilities to drop vaccine mandate ordered by U.S. government
