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Texas court rules vaccine mandates are legal

July 2021 employment law letter
Authors: 
Jacob M. Monty, Monty & Ramirez, LLP

Texas’ Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is granted the authority to set immunization requirements by the Texas Education Code, Chapter 38. If you attended school from grades K-12, then you are familiar with these mandatory vaccines, e.g., measles, tuberculosis, tetanus, and polio. Vaccine mandates didn’t start with COVID-19, and they won’t end there, either.

The mandate scaries

Not too long ago, Houston Methodist Hospital made headlines across the nation for being the first hospital to require its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk being let go. Later, 117 of its over 26,000 employees made headlines for refusing to comply with the hospital’s vaccination mandate as the previously set compliance deadline of June 7, 2021, crept closer. Now, a federal district judge has dismissed the case, stating Houston Methodist’s vaccine requirement is legal and enforceable.

Over 99 percent of Houston Methodist’s employees have complied and are now fully vaccinated, but the unvaccinated claim such a mandate is illegal per the Nuremberg Code. The code is an internationally recognized set of medical standards that was created following World War II’s atrocious experiments performed on prisoners by Nazis (such as those performed by Josef Mengele) and classifies experimentation on human subjects without consent as war crimes.

Is vaccine an experiment?

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