{"id":5801,"date":"2024-05-14T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2024-05-14T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T19:29:07","slug":"bc-supreme-court-rules-in-favour-of-phos-covid-19-vaccination-mandate-for-health-care-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/bc-supreme-court-rules-in-favour-of-phos-covid-19-vaccination-mandate-for-health-care-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Supreme Court rules in favour of PHO\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health-care workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health-care workers who pushed back against being forced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or face losing their jobs have lost in the BC Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bccourts.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/24\/07\/2024BCSC0794.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling released Monday<\/a>, presiding judge Justice Simon R. Coval says the provincial health officer was right in mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for health-care workers.<\/p>\n<p>The three cases in question were brought to court by a nurse practitioner and two doctors, with all three saying they didn\u2019t want to get the shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health-care workers who pushed back against being forced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or face losing their jobs have lost in the BC Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bccourts.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/24\/07\/2024BCSC0794.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling released Monday<\/a>, presiding judge Justice Simon R. Coval says the provincial health officer was right in mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for health-care workers.<\/p>\n<p>The three cases in question were brought to court by a nurse practitioner and two doctors, with all three saying they didn\u2019t want to get the shot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/bc-supreme-court-rules-in-favour-of-phos-covid-19-vaccination-mandate-for-health-care-workers\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BC Supreme Court rules in favour of PHO\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health-care workers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[375,81,83,96,82,18,14,121],"class_list":["post-5801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-court-case","tag-covid-19","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vancouver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5803,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions\/5803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}