NJ Rep. Chris Smith (R, NJ-03) is pushing back hard on the CDC's recommendation and demands President Joe Biden's administration disclose all clinical data the CDC used in making its recommendation.
Healthcare workers and others that work in so-called "congregate settings" will not have to receive a second booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine to keep their jobs.
Republican members of the NJ State Assembly and Senate are expected to file legal challenges to the mandate requiring anyone entering the State House to prove vaccination status or provide a negative COVID test.
The mandates are likely to be challenged in court at some point, but early tests in lower courts and the opinions of most legal scholars have supported the employer's right to set workplace rules, including vaccine mandates.
Parents in the Hoboken school district have been notified that all students age 12 and older will be required to have a COVID-19 vaccine, or be subject to weekly COVID testing.