A legal case brought by a nurse in Minnesota over her refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccine will move forward under a June 15 decision from a federal appeals court.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said that the nurse’s employer, the nonprofit CentraCare Health System, was wrong about its COVID-19 vaccine mandate being an essential policy.
“Vaccination is not the desired result. It is a means to an end—creating a safer workplace environment for both patients and coworkers,” Circuit Judge Ralph Erickson wrote for the unanimous panel that ruled in favor of nurse Christine Klimek….