177 health workers are suing a hospital in Houston who wants them to be vaccinated
More than a hundred health workers have filed a lawsuit against hospitals in Houston, Texas, claiming they do not want to be forced to take an "experimental" vaccine against Covid-19 for fear of being fired.
Marc Boom, the CEO of Houston Methodist, a company that operates eight hospitals with over 26,000 employees, has given staff a June 7 deadline to get vaccinated. The consequences of not vaccinating include "suspension and ultimately dismissal," he wrote in an April letter to doctors and nurses, cited in the lawsuit filed on Friday.
A total of 117 plaintiffs insist the hospital "illegally requires its employees to be injected with an experimental vaccine." The hospital is forcing staff to be human "guinea pigs" as a condition for continuing to work, "says the lawsuit.
"It is a gross and blatant violation of the Nuremberg Code (The International Standard of Informed Consent) and Public Policy in the state of Texas," attorney Jared Woodfill, who filed the lawsuit in the county, told ABC News. by Montgomery. Written shortly after World War II, the Nuremberg Code establishes the basic ethical principles of medical experimentation on humans.
This month, a group of health workers staged a protest against the vaccination warrant outside the Houston Methodist. "This is my body, this is my choice, and I don't think employers, or anyone else, should dictate what goes into my body," Kim Mikeska, a registered nurse, told the Houston Chronicle.
Houston Methodist nurse Jennifer Bridges, the lead actress in the case, told the Washington Post this month that she had received "every vaccine known to man" in the past, but believed coronavirus vaccines needed further study.
The lawsuit defines vaccines as "experimental injection of COVID-19 mRNA gene modification". The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved emergency use of vaccines manufactured by Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson after completion of the required tests. They have yet to get full approval, which requires more rigorous review and more case studies
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explained that Pfizer and Moderna mRNA-type vaccines do not affect or interact in any way with human DNA.
Marc Boom released a statement to the media, stating that 99% of the hospital network employees have been vaccinated. "It is legal for health institutions to impose vaccines, as we have done with the flu vaccine since 2009," said the CEO, adding that Covid-19 vaccines have proven "very safe and very effective and are not experimental."
More than 165 million people in the United States have been vaccinated, which would have led to fewer cases in the United States.
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