153 Houston Hospital Workers Quit or Fired Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

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A hospital system in Texas has fired every worker who did not get a COVID-19 vaccine, receive an exemption, or quit.

Aย Houstonย Methodist spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email that 153 employees were fired on Tuesday or quit during the previous two-week period.

Houston Methodist announced earlier this year that employees would need to get a COVID-19 vaccine, apply for an exemption, or face termination.

Executives who refused to comply were fired in April. The latest round was frontline employees, Jared Woodfill, an attorney representing the now ex-workers in a lawsuit challenging the mandateโ€™s constitutionality, told The Epoch Times.

โ€œThey had until yesterday to capitulate and to submit to the experimental vaccine. And if they chose not to give in, then they were terminated,โ€ he said.

โ€œMany of my clients actually contracted COVID as a result of treating COVID-positive patients, and the thank you that Methodist Hospital gives them now is a pink slip,โ€ he added.

One-hundred and seventy-eight workers were suspended in early June for two weeks for not being fully vaccinated by a June 7 deadline. Most of the workers were fired or quit. The rest were either granted an exemption or deferral or became fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19.

โ€œ100 percent of our employees and physicians are now vaccinated or received an exemption,โ€ the hospital spokesperson told The Epoch Times.

COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

Jennifer Bridges, who was a nurse at Houston Methodist, confirmed Wednesday she has been fired.

โ€œCompletely happy about it. Iโ€™ve lost all respect for Methodist. Ready to move on with my life,โ€ she told The Epoch Times in a text message, adding that she has already started at a new job.

The firings came after U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes, a Reagan appointee, declined to block the vaccine mandate.  Woodfill has filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. A briefing schedule has not yet been set for the appeal.

Approximately 50 more former workers have joined the suit, Woodfill said.

Plaintiffs argued that the mandate violated federal and state law in part because none of the vaccines currently being administered in the United States have been fully approved. All three are being used under emergency authorization.

The lawyer said wrongful termination lawsuits will be filed in the near future.

BYย ZACHARY STIEBER

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