mandate issued by the previous administration.

In his video statement, Hegseth indicated the decision to retract the influenza vaccine mandate was informed by the military's contentious past experience with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate during President Joe Biden's tenure.

The Pentagon had previously, in 2025, ended mandated flu vaccination for most reservists. The military first implemented a flu vaccine mandate in the 1940s.

That helped prompt officials to downgrade recommendations for six vaccines, although that change was later blocked by a federal judge. Other recent surveys have returned mixed results regarding mandates for vaccination.

Joseph Ladapo, announced on Sept. 3 that he was working to eliminate all vaccine mandates from state law.

Joseph Ladapo, announced on Sept. 3 that he was working to eliminate all vaccine mandates from state law.

around vaccines," and the loosening of school vaccine mandates.

, to end medical mandates and vaccine mandates for all Americans."

Vaccine mandate exemptions are becoming more common, researchers reported in a study published on Jan. 14.

California’s position is that its vaccination mandate keeps children healthy and prevents the spread of dangerous illnesses.

Drew told colleagues ahead of the vote that the bill would not ban vaccines or reduce their availability. "What it does do is remove the vaccine mandate from statute.

But they said the challenge to the vaccine mandate is not moot. "Plaintiffs argue that because they sought damages in addition to injunctive relief, their claims for damages were not mooted by the rescission.

The Supreme Court on Dec. 8 vacated a ruling upholding New York's ban on religious exemptions to its school vaccine mandate and ordered a lower court to review its stance on the ban. The case is known as Miller v. McDonald.

California’s position is that its vaccination mandate keeps children healthy and prevents the spread of dangerous illnesses.

This decision came after earlier decisions by the labour board finding that vaccine mandates infringed on Canadians’ Charter rights.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has confirmed that no vaccine mandates remain in place for any state government department.

It found that their employment rate fell by 15 percent and their earnings fell by 19 percent compared with vaccinated colleagues. "The mandates had limited effect on increasing vaccine uptake.

In the other ruling, justices vacated a lower court decision that had sided with New York officials and the state's repeal of religious exemptions for school vaccine mandates.

Titled "Revocation of Commissioner's order on COVID-19 vaccination, the letter details the reasons for the lifting of the mandate.

Purolator's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees was announced in September 2021 and went into effect in January 2022.

Supreme Court ruling that upheld a smallpox vaccine mandate, they said.

In the Department of Health, which I lead here in Florida, we actually do have some vaccines that are mandated, and they are mandated through the department, so those are going to be gone.

The plaintiffs argue vaccine product monographs do not say they prevent transmission. They also say vaccines were mandated without evidence of long-term safety data.

None of this information deterred those who pushed the mandates. People living abroad, even family members of U.S. citizens, were simply not allowed into the country without proof of vaccination. That mandate survived for years.

She added, “Some of the examples that are focused on there have to do with those who oppose the COVID vaccine mandates, those who oppose the mask mandates, parents who were concerned that their children going to school may be forcibly vaccinated with

Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal of the province's COVID vaccine mandate for health-care workers. In a May 6 hearing, the court dismissed the appeal on the grounds it was moot, or no longer relevant.

Ron DeSantis, said on Sept. 3 that he would be working to end all vaccine mandates in the state. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Florida banned COVID-19 vaccine mandates for schools.

A lawsuit challenging the Liberal government’s now-suspended COVID-19 travel vaccine mandate will be able to proceed to trial, after earlier legal challenges were dismissed as moot, a federal court has ruled.

Canada's top court will not hear appeals from challengers of Ottawa's COVID-era travel vaccine mandate. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals with costs on Aug. 29 in three separate cases.