Which vaccines mandates are legal? All of them

The past week has brought a flurry of news about companies and governments making proof of vaccination mandatory as a condition of employment, or to enter a worksite or business. New York, for example, became the first US city to require proof of vaccination for anyone looking to dine, work, or attend a concert indoors, while companies such as Tyson, Netflix, Facebook, and Walmart have implemented vaccine mandates for employees.

Some argue these measures don’t go far enough: As of Aug. 5, only half of the US population was fully vaccinated, and advocates of universal vaccine mandates say the US can no longer rely on such a fragmented approach. The highly transmissible delta variant is only increasing that urgency, and the longer Covid-19 circulates through the population, the more time it will have to mutate into variants we’re even less prepared to handle.

There’s just one big question surrounding all these mandates, both the real and the hypothetical. Is this…legal?

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