Two differing views of the Covid pandemic on display at Supreme Court
CNN
The two visions of pandemic America have arrived at the US Supreme Court.
To the Biden administration, this is a life-or-death moment. Administration lawyers defending a new workplace vaccination requirement highlight the human toll of the deadly virus, a collapsing health care system and the "grave danger" of Covid-19 transmission among workers.
Businesses and states that brought the lawsuits to be heard at the high court on Friday say the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test regulation for large employers would cause workers to quit and profits to plunge. The challengers stress the cost to the national economy and to individual liberty.
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