The debate over requiring hospital employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 largely ignores those administrators and employees who are desperate for safer workplaces.
More than 170 employees at Houston Methodist hospital are suspended for two weeks without pay for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine - just days after they sued over claim they are forced to be human guinea pigs
Houston Methodist set requirements for all employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by June 7 or risk termination
More than 170 employees who failed to get vaccinated by the deadline have been suspended for two weeks without pay
A total of 117 employees are suing the hospital, claiming that the workforce is being pressured into being human guinea pigs
Jennifer Bridges, a nurse at the hospital who is leading the lawsuit, says she will get the jab when it receives full FDA approval, not just emergency approval
"For the first time in the history of the United States, an employer is forcing an employee to participate in an experimental vaccine trial as a condition for continued employment," the lawsuit filed