Shot mandate opposed: Protest against Baylor Scott & White COVID-19 vaccine requirement Saturday
TEMPLE - Opposition to Baylor Scott & White’s mandating that its staff take shots to protect them from complications of COVID-19 has brought a split in the local medical community.
On one side is leadership concerned about infections among both its workers and their patients.
On the other are people concerned about being forced to take shots that are still deemed experimental by the Food and Drug Administration. A protest to “Stop the Mandate” is set for 10 a.m. Saturday on the public sidewalk in front of Baylor Scott & White-Temple and on the other side of 31st Street.
Some staff members are filing for an exemption for both medical and religious reasons. The deadline for Baylor Scott & White employees to do so is today.
Priscilla Estrada, a surgical technologist, said that she was objecting on “strong moral convictions” and she hoped that other nurses would join her. “There’s no long term studies of it,” Estrada noted, explaining she was concerned about possible future effects of the COVID shots.
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(Temple Daily Telegram)