Newsmax host Steve Cortes on Friday suggested that he will defy a COVID vaccine mandate issued by his own network on Thursday in the wake of the Biden administration’s new requirements for companies with 100 or more employees.
“I will not comply w/ any organization’s attempt to enforce Biden’s capricious & unscientific Medical Apartheid mandate. I will not be forced into the injection, nor will I disclose my vaccination status,” Cortes tweeted late Friday. “No one should be pressured to choose between medical privacy & their job.”
That tweet came hours after Mediaite reported that Newsmax sent a staff-wide email Thursday requiring that all employees either offer or proof of vaccination or submit to weekly COVID testing by January 4, 2022 to comply with rules by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA).