125 Indiana U Health Employees Terminated After Choosing Not To Receive Vaccine

125 Indiana U. Health Employees Terminated After COVID Vaccine Mandate + More

Children's Health Defense Team

Indiana University Health announced Thursday that 125 employees have been terminated after choosing not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

A spokesperson provided the following statement: “Indiana University Health has put the safety and well-being of patients and team members first by requiring employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 1. After a two-week unpaid suspension period ending Sept. 14, a total of 125 employees, the equivalent of 61 full time employees, chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and have left the organization.”

The hospital system has about 36,000 employees.

Roughly half of all Americans disapprove of the push by President Biden to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for up to 100 million American workers, according to a new national poll.

And nearly half of those questioned in a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday say the president’s actions to combat the surge this summer in coronavirus pandemic cases due to the highly infectious delta variant go too far.