Nurses protest mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for health care workers

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: 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).