Protesters wave at cars during a forced vaccination protest at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas, on Monday.A Houston hospital has suspended 178 staff members who have refused to abide by its mandate that employees be fully vaccinated by Monday.
There are 285 unvaccinated employees who received medical or religious exemptions and 332 more who were granted deferrals. "I feel like they kind of bullied us into this little corner, like you have to do it or you don't have a job. This is my only source of income," Rivera said.A lawsuit filed against the hospital at the end of May by 117 employees argued that Covid-19 vaccines were"experimental" and that Houston Methodist could not force an employee"to accept an FDA unapproved vaccine on penalty of termination or other sanctions.
Jared Woodfill, the attorney who filed the lawsuit in Montgomery County, said he intends to file with the state court. Woodfill maintained that the hospital violated the law by requiring employees to take a vaccine that has not received full approval and that his clients are threatened with termination after the suspensions.
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Good for the Hospital! Do not rehire these folks ever! Face masks, social distancing and getting vaccinated work to end Covid - Shame on those former employees. they put others at risk not to mention themselves!
When being in a “ right to work” state bites you in your ass.🤣
All healthcare workers need to be vaccinated. If these workers don't want to get vaccinated which has been proven safe and effective, then they should lose their jobs. Don't be a COVIDIOT . I hear restaurants and stores have lots of openings. GetVaccinated
Now we will see how they really think about the federal unemployment that they now won’t get thanks to their great governor!
Good for those employees !!! Work somewhere else!!!!!!!! They have no say over your body!!!
Unfortunate for the hospital that now has to work short-staffed. But it's warranted. Why take the risk of staff being able to spread a virus to patients? Sure the 178 can say 'my choice', but it now affects their fellow coworkers by increasing their workload.
Refusing vaccination when working in a building with actual sick people, is stupid beyond comprehension
They all, including others who refuse the vaccine, should be rounded up and sent to Guantanamo until they achieve some sense of responsibility.
They can start new hospitals where no one is vaccinated and they never wear masks 👍🏻
Good. If you don’t care about the health of others then why are you in health care. Good riddance.
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Good. Find a new job if you can't abide by the rules
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It’s everyone’s choice to be vaccinated if it’s forced on them they have a right to quit. when you need them they won’t be there. Like I told my daughter yesterday her family refuses to be vaccinatedI refuse to take care of her family if they get sick. I’m a retired FF Medic.
Good! they pose a risk to the vulnerable patients that cannot wear masks or get the shot! Americans against vaccinations should grow up and stop being selfish, only thinking about themselves! The shots aren't a cure, but they do prevent infection, and that is a blessing from God!
You forgot to mention the lawsuit
Don’t staff involved in surgery already have to be vaccinated against hepatitis?
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO FORCE THOSE IDIOTS TO VACCINATE. THEIR INSURANCE WILL PAY THEIR FUNERAL IF THEY DIE. DONATE THOSE VACCINES TO THE THIRD WORLD!
I see no issue. Im sure they have them ample notice that failure to be fully vaccinated would result in this. Those staff could have chosen to take jobs elsewhere. Let’s not act like hospital staff can’t find jobs rights now. The hospital made a choice and the staff did as well
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These hospital workers should find a new profession. If they don’t believe in the vaccination they need to do something else.
Unconscionable that these selfish employees would allow themselves to be near sick patients —sometimes cancer patients with compromised immune systems—because of their crazy indoctrination by RW media. I say fire these morons. This is a safety issue.
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Now 178 can apply for those jobs?🤔
Does anyone remember when we were told that virus couldn't have been started in a lab?
Yeah we can't have those unvaccinated medical professionals around unvaccinated patients God forbid
'None of the currently available experimental vaccines for COVID-19 has received final approval from the FDA,' the lawsuit says.'
Correct. No forced vaccines=no forced paychecks. You just helped the unemployment figures for TX, so thanks for that. Another 178 people who need a job will get one.
So these people worked in 👉🏿a hospital 👈🏿 w/o the vaccine...during the entire pandemic...and being terminated by HR but not the virus?
I don't believe they should be made to take the vaccine as a condition of employment!
Don't blame those peoples. That is being forced against their will. This supposed to be a free country. BUT NOW A IDIOT AND IGNORANCE FOR A GOVERNMENT.
Come to Ky plenty of work for Americans.
What exactly is the reason other than big pharmaceuticals companies greed that the government N big corporations demand that the American people get injected with experimental COVID vaccines? Thousands experience bad side effects N hundreds more have died from Pfizer N Moderna.
They should fire their dumb behinds these stupids are dangrouse to other people's well-being
Have you considered injecting disinfectant or inserting light into your body, apparently it works a treat.
Bravo
Wish all healthcare facilities would do this!
Overdue.
FIRE. THEM. ALL.
Good. Hospital patients shouldnt have to fear dying from a virus transmitted by science denying hospital staff.
The government can not make us take it I refuse to after all the bad things have happened to people after taking it fts
They can get another job. If that’s the hospital policy it is what it is
No one should be forced to take a vaccine. Sue.
those a holes
Welp, they were required to get all their other shots to work there. What the hell did they think?
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Trying to understand this logic after what they’ve seen… 🥴😢
Good. No one in a hospital should be unvaccinated
We are a nation of laws, not mandates.
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Medical staff refusing the vaccine. WTF
If you have the “right” not to be vaccinated, then a store owner should have the right to refuse you entry to their store.
Excellent! Way to go Methodist! Top notch health care!
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So they can't get healthcare providers to provide healthcare to... themselves? We are so screwed. COVID19 COVIDIOTS
Good, I hope they all do it
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People who don’t get the vaccine are dirty and should be ostracized for holding us back.
I wish my employer would do the same. We’re required to take the flu shot yearly, why not covid?
Good. This crap has to stop.
Good for you Houston hospital. I don't want a nurse who hasn't been vaccinated.
Good for the business. You know better and if you don't care for yourself. Old people living in those hospitals so find a trump hospital work there and kill everybody in there. On you.
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Let the labor free markets work GOP ormis this some exception for you? Please allow the 178 of 25,000 employees look for work elsewhere. This is still America. In our capitalist system, business make the rules and employees decide where they want to work.
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