Houston Methodist workers file suit after hospital orders them to get vaccinated

Some Houston Methodist employees are taking the hospital to court over its requirement that all workers get vaccinated against COVID-19. 

A group of 117 unvaccinated employees filed suit on Friday in an attempt to bypass the hospital system's mandate that all of its 26,000 workers get their shots by June 7. Managers at the Houston Methodist, the first medical establishment in the U.S. to issue a vaccine mandate, faced an earlier deadline and had to get their shots by April 15. "Methodist Hospital is forcing its employees to be human 'guinea pigs' as a condition for continued employment," the complaint, filed in state court by Houston-area lawyer and conservative activist Jared Woodfill, states. The mandate "requires the employee to subject themselves to medical experimentation as a prerequisite to feeding their families," it added.