Hospital Workers Lose Challenge to Employer Vaccine Mandate

June 14, 2021, 12:34 PM UTC

Houston Methodist Hospital workers lost their bid to block a policy requiring them to be vaccinated against Covid-19 after a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas dismissed their lawsuit.

The workers’ claim that the currently available Covid-19 vaccines are experimental and dangerous “is false, and it is also irrelevant,” Judge Lynn N. Hughes said in a five-page court opinion.

The lawsuit filed in May was among the first to challenge Covid-19 vaccine mandates. The ruling is the first of its kind.

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