West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey sent a personal letter urging the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services to remove the COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.
In the Friday letter, he voiced support for a recent petition from 22 states that asked for the repeal of an interim rule mandating COVID vaccination as a condition of employment for healthcare workers under the CMS. When the CMS rule was put into effect, an estimated 2.4 million workers were not vaccinated. Morrisey said that the rule is “inconsistent with America’s liberty tradition and medical ethics.”
