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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Vaccine Mandate Lawsuit, Afghan Resettlement & NM Leads in Pedestrian Deaths | 8.27.21
Description: Two women have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court that argues a vaccine mandate for certain health care workers and for attendance at the New Mexico State Fair violates their constitutional rights. The lawsuit seeks to bar the mandate’s enforcement. Meanwhile, the state’s Youth Livestock Board has moved its annual competition to Roswell in an effort to sidestep the vaccine mandate, which impacted children in FFA and 4-H programs who are too young to receive an approved vaccine. The Line opinion panelists look at continued pushback against the governor’s public health orders.
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