Several Nurses Fired For Refusing Toxic Flu Shot

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At the Indiana University Health Gosben Hospital (HGH), two nurses were fired or refusing the flu shot. These inoculations are mandatory, per regulations of the hospital, which is a violation of the employees' individual rights. Ethel Hoover, one of the nurses let go has worked for the establishment over 2 decades with an exemplary record.

Hoover asserted: “This is my body. I have a right to refuse the flu vaccine. For 21 years, I have religiously not taken the flu vaccine, and now you’re telling me that I believe in it.”

HGH implemented a mandatory vaccination program late last year. Melanie McDonald, spokeswoman for HGH explained:

    As a hospital and health system, our top priority is and should be patient safety, and we know that hospitalized people with compromised immune systems are at a greater risk for illness and death from the flu. The flu has the highest death rate of any vaccine preventable disease, and it would be irresponsible from our perspective for health care providers to ignore that.

Eight nurses refused the flu shot as is their right as Joyce Gingerich, a fellow nurse said:

    I knew right away I would have to walk away from getting the shot. I have a personal conviction that I don’t want to have one in my body.

Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the nurses have the right to refuse the shot without repercussions, prohibition or discrimination from their employer.

The HGH refused the nurses recourse and fired them with the help of their in-house attorney.

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