Nurses protest mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for health care workers

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A group of nurses, health care workers, and supporters gathered outside the UCHealth Anschutz Medical Campus August 9 to protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the health care network.

“I think it’s mostly about coercion and force,” said Stephanie Thorpe, a nurse at UCHealth. “We shouldn’t be mandating medicine.”

Thorpe was one of the many people in attendance. She helped organize the event in a Facebook group called “Nurses & Healthcare Workers UNITED” that has nearly 2,000 members. UCHealth recently announced that all staff must be vaccinated by October 1 or risk termination (unless they are not vaccinated due to religious reasons or have an appropriate medical exemption).

As of August 9, 90% of UCHealth employees are vaccinated, according to Dr. Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth, so unvaccinated employees are part of a small minority. Thorpe knows this and said she was at the protest to speak up for employees who might agree with her but are afraid to make their position known.

Read more, including the response from experts at UCHealth: https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/news/heal...

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