LOS ANGELES - As cases of the novel coronavirus surge across the country and the world, health care workers and some state and city employees are being mandated to get COVID-19 vaccines.
Now, major companies — including Facebook and Google — are requiring that their employees get their shots in order to return to work.
Lawyers with the Justice Department determined that federal law does not prohibit public agencies and private businesses from mandating COVID-19 vaccines under emergency use authorization according to an opinion posted by the DOJ on Monday, FOX News reported.RELATED: CDC: New data suggests vaccinated people could transmit delta variantThe push to vaccinate comes as hospitals in some areas reach capacity and new data from the.