The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, but allowed a vaccine mandate for health providers at facilities that receive federal funding to stand.

El Supremo de Estados Unidos establece que Biden no puede obligar a vacunarse o hacerse test a los empleados de grandes empresas

The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, but allowed a vaccine mandate for health providers at facilities that receive federal funding to stand.   

• The high court ruled 6-3 against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) employer mandate, blocking it from taking effect while other legal challenges play out.    

• The court ruled 5-4 to keep the health care worker mandate, with Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the more liberal Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.    

The Biden administration has argued that both policies are necessary in order to get as many people vaccinated against COVID-19 as possible. 

President Biden has indicated he is running out of patience with Americans who refuse to get vaccinated against the coronavirus and that the rules were meant to force the issue in order to make workplaces safer.  

While lower courts were split, the conservative Supreme Court majority ruled the employer vaccine-or-test mandate was an overreach. 

The justices said the challengers, a coalition of businesses and 27 Republican-led states, were likely to succeed on the merits.