Henry Ford Employees Sue Over Institute's Vaccine Mandate

DETROIT — More than 50 Henry Ford nurses, doctors and other employees filed a lawsuit in Detroit on Monday against the health system's vaccine mandate.

The complaint alleges the vaccine mandate infringes upon their protected constitutional right to "personal autonomy and bodily integrity" under the 14th Amendment.

Furthermore, the complaint said that "The ‘vaccines’ from Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer have killed more than twice as many people in less than a year than all other vaccines combined since the government set up its VAERS reporting system in 1990."

Henry Ford Health System implemented a vaccine mandate for all its employees on June 21 and has given unvaccinated employees until Sept. 10 to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or lose their job.

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Henry Ford recently told the Detroit Free Press, "We remain confident that vaccination is the most powerful tool we all have against the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond that, we cannot comment on pending litigation."

Henry Ford was also the first health system to implement a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on June 29 and as of Wednesday, 92% of its more than 33,000 employees had gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Since then, other prominent health systems, such as Beaumont, Spectrum Health, Trinity Health and recently Bronson Healthcare have enforced their own COVID-19 vaccine requirements.