… in the ten states that filed lawsuits challenging the mandate for healthcare workers to be vaccinated. A federal judge has blocked the healthcare worker vaccine mandate in Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. In his ruling, the judge said the plaintiffs said that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed because Congress had not granted the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the authority to issue a vaccine mandate. This comes days after another federal court blocked the private employer vaccine mandate. Read more.