Not their job to assess the validity of the evidence, so they don't.
From the majority (7-2 by my count) CMS case ...
COVID-19 is a highly contagious, dangerous, and--especially for Medicare and Medicaid patients--deadly disease. The Secretary of Health and Human Services determined that a COVID-19 vaccine mandate will substantially reduce the likelihood that healthcare workers will contract the virus and transmit it to their patients. 86 Fed. Reg. 61557-61558. He accordingly concluded that a vaccine mandate is "necessary to promote and protect patient health and safety" in the face of the ongoing pandemic. Id., at 61613.The rule thus fits neatly within the language of the statute. ...
The finding by the HHS Secretary is placed beyond question. The can be no other solution than mandate a vax.
Typical nonsense on stilts.
Tools, all of them that didn’t bring up the lessening danger and the ineffective vaxx
It’s like convicting of murder by arrow when it was an obvious gunshot wound.
“We’re not paid to think, only to react to what we’re told.”
Here’s the problem, my wife works at state facility which serves the permanent mentally handicapped, they do receive medicare and medicaid, 50% of staff not vaccinated, 24/7 direct care by high school graduates, high turnover and understaffed even without this covid mess. if this mandate apply’s to them, they’ll close down with no one to care for the patients.