JUST IN—A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Houston Methodist Hospital by employees who opposed a #COVID19 vaccine mandate as a condition of employment. Judge rejected analogy that it’s akin to "forced medical experimentation during the Holocaust”. 🧵
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2) The privately run Houston Methodist Hospital that under Texas law, workers are protected from termination only if they refuse to commit a criminal act that carries criminal penalties.
Receiving a Covid-19 vaccine is not an illegal act, and it carries no criminal penalties.
Receiving a Covid-19 vaccine is not an illegal act, and it carries no criminal penalties.
3) The judge agreed with Houston Methodist Hospital. Hughes admonished Bridges' analogy that her threat of termination in this case was like "forced medical experimentation during the Holocaust."
4) Judge Hughes called that claim "reprehensible" and said Bridges was not being coerced.
"Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them ... COVID-19," Hughes wrote in the dismissal of the lawsuit.
"Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them ... COVID-19," Hughes wrote in the dismissal of the lawsuit.
5) "It is a choice made to keep staff, patients, and their families safer. Bridges can freely choose to accept or refuse a COVID-19 vaccine; however if she refuses she will simply need to work somewhere else."
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