For the nation's nearly 2.1 million civilian federal workers, many questions about the move remain unanswered.
"The FDA recognizes that vaccines are key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic and is working as quickly as possible to review applications for full approval," FDA spokesperson Alison Hunt said in a statement.
Magnus argued that the expected announcement could leave workers with some choice on vaccine, but a consequence for not getting the shot. But Department of Justice lawyers have concluded that the law"does not prohibit public or private entities from imposing vaccination requirements," even for vaccines that are not yet fully approved by the FDA,"Although many entities' vaccination requirements preserve an individual's ultimate 'option' to refuse an EUA vaccine, they nevertheless impose sometimes-severe adverse consequences for exercising that option," the DOJ legal analysis concludes, citing,...
One professional association representing federal employees, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, expressed concern about the expected vaccine requirement Wednesday.
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