Boston COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for City Workers Okay, Court Rules

A COVID-19 vaccine is prepared in Boston, Mass., on March 4, 2021. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

Boston’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers was legal, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled on March 30.

The city’s claim that COVID-19 could not adequately be combated without vaccination outweighed the risk of irreparable harm to workers who were facing termination, Justice Elspeth Cypher wrote in the ruling.