In National Federation of Independent Business vs Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for workplaces with over 100 employees. American media have widely attributed this outcome to a ‘conservative’ majority on the bench.

In Djokovic vs Minister for Immigration, the Federal Court of Australia upheld the Morrison government’s decision to cancel the visa of an unvaccinated tennis star, whose vaccination scepticism was perceived as lending support to anti-vaccination activists.