The U.S. director of national intelligence has three months to declassify information on potential links between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19, after President Joe Biden signed legislation.
Reuters 6/6/23 Biotech firm Promosome LLC sued Moderna, Pfizer, and BioNTech in federal court in San Diego, California, accusing their COVID-19 vaccines of infringing a patent related to messenger RNA technology.
Requires some 17 million health care workers to be vaccinated by the same deadline, Jan. 4, 2022 but with no option for weekly testing in lieu of vaccination. The rule covers all employees — clinical and non-clinical — at about 76,000 health care facilities that receive federal funding from Medicare or Medicaid.
Prohibits schools and universities from treating unvaccinated students differently from vaccinated students. Prohibits requiring vaccinations that don't have full FDA approval. Goes into effect 10/13/21
Blocks the health department from issuing any kind of stay-at-home order like those of the early weeks in the pandemic. It also allows the 132 lawmakers in the General Assembly to vote down health orders or emergency declarations without needing the governor’s approval.
The Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals sided with WCPO in its core complaint against the Ohio Department of Health, ruling that health officials violated public records law when they refused to release the number of COVID-19 deaths at a Cincinnati nursing home.
The Supreme Court of Ohio rejected an effort to invoke a 2011 amendment to the Ohio Constitution to block the state from enacting or enforcing any COVID-19 related measures.