Republished by permission of Warner Mendenhall. See You Count Indiana’s previous interview with him here.

How did the CDC handle exemption requests?

Warner Mendenhall • December 24, 2023 • Subscribe at CovidLawcast

From Joe Gomes, Esq. a great contributor to the efforts at Freedom Counsel: A Christmas gift for use in Covid-19 shot cases.  Complaint and Exhibits filed on December 15, 2023, in Nelson et.al. v Hawaiian Airlines, a vax Title VII / ADA case (Lots of Plaintiffs).  In particular, see Exhibit 2, the text of which is pasted below.  Exhibit 2 is a FOIA response from the CDC.  The CDC granted religious and medical accommodations to its employees; it apparently did not terminate any employees for not taking the vax; and it ended its vax program on January 24, 2022.    Here are some of the CDC’s responses: The number of CDC employees in total? As of October 29, 2022: 12,335 employees. Did the CDC mandate COVID-19 vaccines on its employees? The CDC was in compliance with Executive Order 14043 which required all federal employees to receive their COVID-19 primary series. CDC Policy, in accordance with guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, required that all federal employees must have received their primary series by November 22, 2021, except in limited circumstances where an employee is legally entitled to a reasonable accommodation, and complete vaccine verification by no later than November 8, 2021. The total number of CDC employees who requested COVID-19 vaccine exemption and accommodation? 293 How many of them are religious exemption and accommodation requests? 197 How many of them are medical exemption and accommodation requests? 78 — NOTE: 18 were requests for both medical and religious exemptions and accommodations. The total number of COVID-19 exemption and accommodation requests approved and the requester accommodated permanently in the job or position they held at the time of making the request? None of the requests were processed due to court injunction; therefore no jobs were impacted The total number of CDC employees who are unvaccinated for COVID-19 with or without an exemption including new hires? As of 10/29/2022, 469 CDC employees were unvaccinated for COVID-19. As of January 24, 2022, CDC no longer requires this information to be submitted by CDC employees Does the CDC still require COVID-19 vaccines for newly hired employees? No, as of January 24, 2022, CDC does not require COVID-19 vaccines for newly hired employees.