Several hundred health care workers across the state of Virginia have either lost their jobs or been suspended because they refuse to comply with mandates to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, joined other states including California, New York, and North Carolina in issuing a directive in August mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for most of Virginia’s state workers—a move that applied to more than 120,000 executive branch employees.
