{"id":235157,"date":"2021-05-31T07:20:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235157"},"modified":"2021-06-01T06:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:27:01","slug":"health-workers-sue-texas-hospital-over-compulsory-vaccinations-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235157","title":{"rendered":"Health workers sue Texas hospital over compulsory vaccinations &#8211; Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reuters \u2013 May 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A group of 117 healthcare workers at a Texas hospital filed a lawsuit in state court against their employer&#8217;s mandate requiring all staff to get COVID-19 vaccinations, Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/05\/29\/texas-hospital-vaccine-lawsuit\/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">reported<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Employees of Houston Methodist Hospital said in the lawsuit that their employer&#8217;s compulsory immunization requirement violated the Nuremberg Code, a set of standards designed after World War Two to prevent experimentation on human subjects without their consent, the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>They also said the hospital presented them with the choice of either getting a vaccine or losing their job, which violated state law, and asked the court to bar Houston Medical from firing unvaccinated staffers, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes a day after the country&#8217;s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said companies could mandate that employees in a workplace must be vaccinated against COVID-19, amid a shortfall in demand for inoculations due to factors including ambivalence or skepticism about the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Public health officials have been forced to try new strategies to persuade people to get the shots, with efforts that range from creative gimmicks to grassroots outreach resembling get-out-the-vote drives.<\/p>\n<p>However, the vast majority of employers have been reluctant to require workers to be vaccinated. A survey by management-side law firm Fisher Phillips earlier this year found that only 9% of the more than 700 employers surveyed said they were considering mandating vaccines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/health-workers-sue-texas-hospital-over-compulsory-vaccinations-washington-post-2021-05-30\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of a Houston hospital claim that their employer&#8217;s requirement for compulsory Covid vaccinations violated the Nuremberg Code, part of which was drawn up to prevent medical experimentation on humans without their consent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235159,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235157\/revisions\/235159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}