A test case for vaccine mandates

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

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Summary

Houston Methodist was one of the nation’s first health systems to impose a coronavirus vaccine mandate. Now, 153 people have either resigned or been fired for refusing it. Plus, ethical questions in the Biden administration. And coming out in the NFL.

More than 150 health-care workers who did not comply with a Houston-based hospital system’s vaccine mandate have been fired or resigned, more than a week after a federal judge upheld the policy. Health reporter Dan Diamond on what this story can tell us about ongoing vaccine skepticism in the U.S.

On The Post’s podcast “Can He Do That?” host Allison Michaels talks to national political reporter Michael Scherer about the pair of brothers in Biden’s orbit raising questions about White House ethics.

Producer Emma Talkoff talks with sports reporter Nicki Jhabvala about the first active NFL player to come out.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi there, is the mayor in Marissa Lang with the Washington Post?
0:11.0	Hey, it's Dossie, order to pick your brain on the phone.
0:13.0	Hi, my name is Janet Johnson.
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:17.0	I'm routine powers.
0:20.0	It's Wednesday, June 23rd.
0:25.0	Today, can hospitals require staff to get vaccinated?
0:29.0	Plus, ethical questions in the Biden administration and coming out in the NFL.
0:37.0	The news in Houston is that more than 150 workers at one of the city's biggest hospital systems
0:43.0	have decided to either quit or get fired instead of getting vaccinated against coronavirus.
0:53.0	Dan Diamond is a national health reporter for the post.
0:56.0	It's been big news for a few reasons.
0:58.0	I think first, there are lots of employers around the country trying to figure out
1:03.0	how do they reopen their offices?
1:05.0	How do they bring workers back in a safe way in the middle or in the tail end of the pandemic,
1:11.0	at least in the United States?
1:12.0	I think the second issue this has been so closely watched is Houston Methodist,
1:18.0	this hospital system based in Houston, was on the vanguard.
1:23.0	They're one of the early adopters of the idea that all workers need to be vaccinated.
1:28.0	So as they have gone through, first a campaign inside the hospital,
1:33.0	then a legal fight with one of their former staffers.
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