Oklahoma joins 11 states in lawsuit over vaccine mandate for healthcare workers

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor filed a 2nd suit Monday against President Joe Biden's medication over the national vaccine mandate.

Tuesday's announcement brings Oklahoma into a multi-state suit challenging the mandate for healthcare workers.

“I volition not tolerate the Biden Administration threatening Oklahoma healthcare workers with their jobs aft they person fearlessly braved the pandemic,” O’Connor said successful Tuesday's statement.

“Oklahoma is already suffering from staffing shortages, and this mandate volition lone worsen it, particularly successful agrarian Oklahoma.”

The mandate for healthcare workers goes on with the Biden program to necessitate national contractors to guarantee their workers are vaccinated and that businesses with much than 100 employees necessitate their workers to get vaccinated oregon deterioration masks and get tested weekly.

Oklahoma is already progressive successful a suit against Biden's administration implicit the mandate for national contractors.

The mandates are scheduled to instrumentality effect Jan. 4.

The states filing this suit are arguing that the mandate is unlawful and unconstitutional. Other states included successful the suit are Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia.

"The Vaccine Mandate causes sedate information to susceptible persons whom Medicare and Medicaid were designed to support – the poor, sick, and aged – by forcing the termination of millions of ‘healthcare heroes’ who are indispensable to providing healthcare services,” the suit says.

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