Judge Throws Out Health Care Workers’ Case Against Maine COVID Vaccine Mandate

A health care worker prepares a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in Manhattan in New York on May 12, 2021. Carlo Allegri/Reuters

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a group of health care workers against Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Jon Levy, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, said that the Pine Tree State’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate is “rationally based.”