GoFundMe Takes Down $180,000 Fundraiser for Nurse Seeking to Overturn Vaccine Mandate

People gather to protest Houston Methodist Hospital system's rule of firing any employee who is not immunized by June 7, 2021, at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas. Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP

GoFundMe has said it took down a campaign worth more than $180,000 that was started by a nurse who sought to overturn a Texas hospital system’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The campaign was created by Jennifer Bridges, a former registered nurse at Houston Methodist hospital who was fired along with hundreds of other staff members earlier this year after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.