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22 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
SCOOP: 153 hospital workers fired, resign from Houston-based health system after refusing to get vaccinated, spokesperson tells The Post.

More than 24,950 Houston Methodist workers did comply with system’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.

washingtonpost.com/health/2021/06…
One of those workers, a nurse named Jennifer Bridges, said she’s already found work at a firm and is planning a protest at Houston Methodist this weekend.

She excused herself from an interview with The Post to take a protest-planning call from InfoWars founder Alex Jones. Image
Bridges also led a much-watched lawsuit against Methodist, alleging its vaccine mandate was unlawful.

But a federal judge this month dismissed the case.

“Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them the COVID-19 virus,” Judge Lynn Hughes wrote. Image
Spoke with @martinepowers #PostReports about Houston Methodist’s effort to impose a vaccine mandate, its success in ensuring near-universal staff vaccination + the media’s responsibility when covering anti-vaccination stories.

washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-…

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9 Jun
Breaking: Houston hospital system suspends 178 workers for not getting vaccinated.

"I know that today may be difficult for some who are sad about losing a colleague who’s decided to not get vaccinated,” CEO Marc Boom wrote in email shared with The Post.

washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06…
Wrote last month about the conflict brewing at Houston Methodist, which announced one of nation’s first coronavirus vaccine mandates — and largely succeeded, with nearly 25,000 workers now vaxxed — but drew legal threats and walkouts from some staff.
Here’s @D_Hawk on the staff who sued the hospital over its vaccine mandate, saying they didn’t want to be “guinea pigs.”

Experts have countered that vaccines are safe and effective, pointing to the growing body of evidence.

washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05…
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8 Jun
BREAKING: Mastercard Foundation is donating *$1.3 billion* to buy vaccines for more than 50M people in Africa, expand vaccine distribution and manufacturing on the continent, boost Africa CDC. washingtonpost.com/health/2021/06…
The @MastercardFdn gift — one of the largest during pandemic — goes toward areas of great need.

Africa CDC aiming to vaccinate 60% of continent by end of 2022. So far, fewer than 2% of population has gotten shots.

(In United States, we are over 50% with at least one dose.)
Global health and development experts like @krishna_u @glassmanamanda praised the Mastercard Foundation gift and @AfricaCDC’s role.
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7 Jun
The national numbers are clear: the US vax rate has fallen two-thirds from its April peak, and the White House July 4 goal appears unlikely.

But the state-by-state situation is very different, as our team of reporters learned. Here’s what we found.

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washingtonpost.com/health/2021/06…
First, there’s a clear split, as @dtkeating has chronicled

- Thirteen mostly coastal states have already vaxxed 70% of adults w at least one dose (the July 4 goal)

- An additional 15 states, plus DC, are over 60% and will likely hit the goal

- But the rest are lagging behind Image
Second, even in places where most people still aren’t vaxxed, demand has cratered (and forced new tactics).

In Hamilton County, Tenn. — where more than half of the county’s 370,000 residents remain unvaccinated — officials are pivoting away from mass sites, @moody found. Image
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3 May
NEW: Meet the vaccine skeptics who changed their minds. (And why they did it.)

Public health experts — and White House officials — are studying their conversions, hoping to learn how to win over millions of Americans who are still in the “no” camp.

washingtonpost.com/health/2021/05…
Also NEW: the @deBeaumontFndtn and @GOPDoctors teamed up on a series of pro-vaccine public service announcements, set to go out today and shared with The Post.

Here’s @RepMMM, former Iowa state health director, making the case to her constituents.
The former skeptics rattled off the exact moments when they changed their minds, crediting doctors’ messages or turning points like:

— an episode of @BrianLehrer’s show
— @DrPaulOffit going on CNBC
— the NY Yankees requiring fans to show proof of vaccination (or a negative test)
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18 Apr
NEW: Rather than get vaccinated, some Americans are buying blank CDC cards — or making their own — to pretend they’ve gotten shots.

Inside the race between scammers and regulators — and how CDC’s decision to use a paper card created openings for fraud. washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04…
One eBay user sold more than 100 blank CDC vaccination cards in the past two weeks, including a card obtained by The Post.

The account belongs to a Chicago-area pharmacist, who confirmed it was his account but denied he made the sales.

washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04…
Why paper cards, anyway?

Officials said CDC initially envisioned a comprehensive digital solution to help people track shots (and made no mention of cards), like in these July 2020 slides obtained by The Post — but ran out of time and needed a fail-safe. washingtonpost.com/context/cdc-sl…
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16 Apr
BREAKING: Biden officials rescind approval for Texas’ Medicaid waiver.

Trump officials approved the $100B-plus plan in last week of administration. Federal officials now say they “materially erred” in giving OK.

washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04…
Then-CMS chief Seema Verma told Texas that the state’s request didn’t need to go through normal rule-making process.

But public health advocates said it was an attempt to lock in Trump-era changes — and that granting Texas a 10-year extension was a gambit to bypass Biden. Image
The reaction from Texas →
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