The court’s ruling comes less than a week after the CDC extended the mandate for 15 days, amid a rise in Covid infections nationwide due to the more contagious omicron BA.2 subvariant.
Highlights
- A judge in Florida vacated the Biden administration’s national Covid mask mandate for planes and other forms of public transportation.
- The Health Freedom Defense Fund, a group that opposes public health mandates, and two individuals who argued that wearing masks while flying exacerbated their anxiety and panic attacks first filed the lawsuit in July 2021.
- The court’s ruling comes less than a week after the CDC extended the mandate for 15 days, amid a rise in Covid infections nationwide due to the more contagious omicron BA.2 subvariant.
- The U.S.
- reported a seven-day average of nearly 35,000 new infections as of Friday, a 36% increase over the past two weeks.