Unvaccinated Medical Workers Turn to Religious Exemptions

Heather Hollingsworth of the Associated Press reports that some health care workers who oppose the Covid-19 vaccine are utilizing religious exemptions to avoid vaccine mandates. Vaccine mandates have left hospitals in difficult positions, forcing them to choose between granting religious exemptions while having unvaccinated employees or suffering staffing shortages. Some medical workers fear that their coworkers are abusing the religious exemptions. Marcella Dahl, a primary care physician in Sidney, Montana, said, “Half of the people saying this don’t even go to church. I think it puts everybody at risk.”

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