The Supreme Court decision striking down the OSHA vaccine mandate was struck down. Reading about the decision I came across an interesting factor in the government's justification for the mandate.
The government argued (and OSHA's summary) that the mandate would conservatively save over 6,500 lives. This when over 800,000 have died in the pandemic. 6,500 lives is less than the one week death count from COVID for about the last 5 months. If that's all the lives they expect the mandate to save then it really doesn't seem that significant.
Of course, 6,500 is labeled a conservative minimum, still I would have expected a nationwide mandate of large employers to be able to save more than a week's worth (or 3 days worth lately) of deaths.
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