Employment Law: Ohio and Federal: COVID Regulations

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.

ABC News 8/26/22

Reuters 4/9/24

Fierce Pharma 12/6/22

FDA website, 8/23/22

Kaiser Family Foundation, 3/28/22

EEOC Guidance 3/14/22

HR Dive 5/23/22

1/26/22

EEOC Technical Assistance 11/17/21, updated 7/12/22

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.

Whitehouse.gov 9/10/21

Whitehouse.gov 9/9/21

JD Supra 10/25/21

HHS, Office for Civil Rights and DOJ, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section 7/26/21