Los Angeles Schools Drop COVID Vaccine Mandate — What's Next for Fired Employees Who Sued the District?

 In a 6-1 vote late Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education rescinded the district’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement for all district employees.

Mary Holland, J.D., president of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), commented:
“People can get discouraged with lawsuits — they take a lot of time and money — but this is an example of the payoff — the authoritarian actor LAUSD backed down. No one should think for a minute that without HFDF [Health Freedom Defense Fund] this would have happened. It would not have. Pushing back against unconstitutional, dictatorial acts is incredibly important.
“It is a huge credit to the health freedom movement as a whole that there has not been a single COVID vaccine mandate imposed in a public school district in the country that has stuck. This feat would not have been possible without grassroots activism and lawsuits.”

Leslie Manookian, president and founder of HFDF, agreed the vote was “another huge victory” for the health freedom movement.

Still, she said, the district’s choice to rescind the order now — more than two years after it was announced and after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted COVID-19 vaccines don’t prevent infection or transmission — is a “cynical attempt to evade justice as the judges signaled they believed LAUSD’s vaccine mandate was irrational.”