'As a result, many of them contracted COVID-19. 'What is shocking is that many of my clients were on the front line treating COVID-positive patients at Texas Methodist Hospital during the height of the pandemic,' he said. Jared Woodfill, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs, told NPR they're not done 'fighting this unjust policy.' In a written statement, he said his clients are committed to appealing the decision. The plaintiffs say their fight isn't over Houston Methodist has been among the first hospitals in the nation to require staff to be inoculated against the coronavirus, and the judge's decision marked an early test of how challenges to similar bans may hold up in the courts. 'Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on victims that caused pain, mutilation, permanent disability, and in many cases, death.' 'Equating the injection requirement to medical experimentation in concentration camps is reprehensible,' Hughes said. The judge also denounced the plaintiffs for equating the vaccine mandate to forced experimentation by the Nazis against Jewish people during the Holocaust. 'Receiving a COVID-19 vaccination is not an illegal act, and it carries no criminal penalties,' the judge wrote. The hospital says that nearly all of its roughly 26,000 employees agreed to the policy, but suspended nearly 200 staff members without pay for refusing to comply.

The decision marked the latest development in a standoff that began in April when Houston Methodist announced that all staff would be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by June 7. It is a choice made to keep staff, patients, and their families safer.' 'Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them the COVID-19 virus. District Judge Lynn Hughes upheld the hospital's vaccination policy, saying the requirement broke no federal law. In a five-page ruling issued Saturday, U.S. A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by hospital employees who have refused to comply with a mandate requiring they receive a COVID-19 vaccine.Ī federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by 117 employees at Houston Methodist Hospital who were suing the hospital system over its COVID-19 vaccine requirement. An American flag flies outside of Houston Methodist Hospital in June 2020.

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