vaccine mandates

A potential trucker convoy from California to D.C. could disrupt the Super Bowl and transportation in major cities across the country, according to a Department of Homeland Security bulletin obtained by NBC News. However, the bulletin describes the plan as “aspirational,” and there’s no serious indication it will happen. DHS “has received reports of truck drivers planning to potentially...

Virginia’s new attorney general says state colleges and universities cannot require students to get vaccinated against COVID-19

Virginia’s next governor, Glenn Youngkin, said he will lift the state’s school mask mandate and change other COVID-19 policies after taking office Jan. 15.

The first Republican governor in eight years promised a change in direction. Here are four things to watch for.

George Mason University is requiring students to get their booster shots, but a group of students is fighting back. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares said they will challenge Biden administration mandates intended to increase the COVID-19 vaccination rate.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said Monday that the U.S. should “seriously” consider a vaccination mandate for domestic travel as states across the country face surges in COVID-19 cases from the more-transmissible omicron variant.

A federal appeals court panel has lifted a nationwide ban against President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for health workers, creating the potential for patchwork enforcement across the country

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the expansion Monday amid yet another COVID surge driving case rates up across the five boroughs.

Federal workers will not be punished for failing to comply with President Joe Biden’s vaccination mandate until next year, the White House announced Monday.

Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine

News4’s Mark Segraves beaks down the number of D.C. teachers and staff who are still unvaccinated.

According to data provided by DCPS, 79% of all school staff are fully vaccinated. When looking at just teachers, 85% reported as fully vaccinated.

About 9,000 New York City municipal workers were put on unpaid leave for refusing to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that took effect Monday and thousands of city firefighters have called out sick in an apparent protest over the requirement

Some American workers are deciding to quit their jobs in defiance of what they consider intrusive vaccine mandates.

Police departments that are requiring officers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are running up against pockets of resistance across the U.S. Police unions and officers are pushing back by filing lawsuits to block the mandates.

The Biden administration’s requirement that companies ensure workers are vaccinated or tested regularly for Covid could be finalized as early as next week, pending a final White House review, according to a person familiar with the process.

At issue is whether transplant patients who refuse the shots are not only putting themselves at greater risk for serious illness and death from a COVID infection, but also squandering scarce organs that could benefit others.

New York City teachers and other school staff members are required to be at least partially vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Monday as the controversial mandate for the largest public school district in the country goes into effect. Ninety-five percent of all full-time schools staff met that requirement by the time the city’s roughly million public school students were...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied a request from New York City teachers hoping to get a last minute injunction to stop the city’s vaccine mandate for educators and school staff. New York City’s roughly 148,000 school employees had until 5 p.m. to get at least their first COVID-19 vaccine shot, or face suspension without pay when schools...