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The Justice Department emphasized religious freedom in the response of any state of local government to their COVID-19 responses and sided with the church. [ 221 ] [ 222 ] In July 2020, a federal judge blocked religious restrictions in New York State where they were limited to 25% while others operated at 50%.
On January 10, 2022, Pope Francis issued a statement on COVID-19 vaccines. He stated that COVID-19 vaccination was a "moral obligation" and denounced "how people had been swayed by 'baseless information' to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives". [20] [21] [22]
Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
A home furniture store’s assistant manager was fired after asking for an exemption from her company’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy — saying her Christian beliefs prevented her from ...
He doesn’t have a Sunday morning TV show, isn’t a household name in the world of evangelical Christianity and you aren’t likely to hear his sermons on mainstream Christian broadcasts.
New cases were 22.02% higher than those added in the previous week, and COVID-19 testing increased by 0.44%. Palm Beach reported 1,489 new resident cases, reaching a cumulative total of 461,440.
The settlement includes a statewide injunction against California's COVID-19 restrictions on places of worship. [84] [85] In late 2021, Liberty Counsel filed suit in Florida on behalf of members of the U.S. military who had religious objections to taking COVID-19 vaccinations.
In turn, Asian American health has been disproportionately challenged by the virus, as a study by Chan et al. from Cambridge University found, “that while Asian Americans make up a small proportion of COVID-19 deaths in the USA, they experience significantly higher excess all-cause mortality (3.1 times higher), case fatality rate (as high as ...