On Friday, health care workers will be outside Duke University Hospital to speak out against the new vaccine requirements that come as new COVID-19 cases reach their highest totals in months.
Durham, N.C. — Protesters are traveling across the state, from hospital to hospital, to rally against mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for healthcare workers. Close to 100 people were outside of Duke University Hospital today in Durham, as new COVID-19 cases reach their highest totals in months. While many healthcare workers over the past several months have pleaded for people to get the vaccine, today at Duke University Hospital people refusing to do just that. They’re pushing back against the now mandatory requirement for employment. Most who showed up to protest were concerned community members, friends and family of healthcare workers, rather than the health care workers themselves. Friday’s protest was a heated day of chants and signs about vaccines carried throughout the crowd of people outside of the hospital. WRAL News spoke with the protesters. One said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared theories, rather than facts, about the virus. Another woman, who said her husband is a registered nurse at the hospital, said her husband is «not seeing good things come of the vaccine thus far.» «It’s bodily autonomy to decide for yourself what goes in and out your body,» she said, «and what happens to it seems to only go so far when it’s a political agenda.
