Veterans Affairs Will Continue to Enforce Vaccine Mandate to its Health Care Personnel
The Department of Veterans Affairs has become the first federal agency to require its frontline health workers to get vaccinated against Covid last year or they’ll lose their jobs.
Last week, a Southern District Court in Texas just protected medical freedom and ruled against the mandated COVID shot for federal workers. Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown upheld a suit from federal workers who are refusing to be vaccinated against the COVID virus.
“The motion is granted as to Executive Order 14043. All the defendants, except the President, are thus enjoined from implementing or enforcing Executive Order 14043 until this case is resolved on the merits,” Judge Brown said.
On Monday, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough sent out an email stating that the nationwide injunction on the President’s executive order 14043 “does not affect his order requiring all Veterans Health Administration (VHA) health care personnel to be vaccinated.”
According to the email obtained by TGP,