ALBANY – New York state was “comfortably” within its administrative powers when it required health care workers who refused to get flu shots to wear face masks when working with patients during flu season, an appeals court said Thursday.
A unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Third Department, ruled that the 2013 rule is a proper exercise of powers delegated by the Legislature to the Health Department to “foster the prevention and treatment of human disease.”
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