‘We Have Rights’: The French Health Workers Furious About COVID-19 Vaccine Order

‘We Have Rights’: The French Health Workers Furious About COVID-19 Vaccine Order
A healthcare worker administers a dose of the "Comirnaty" Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Parc des Expositions in Angers as part of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign in France on April 13, 2021. Stephane Mahe/Reuters
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FONTENAY-AUX-ROSES, France—Nursing home worker Sandra Barona is so vehemently against receiving a COVID-19 shot that she said she may quit her job after French President Emmanuel Macron ordered all health workers to get vaccinated.

Barona, who looks after elderly residents in a care home southwest of Paris, expressed scant faith in vaccines she felt had been developed too hastily, even though regulators around the world have repeatedly said speed will not compromise safety. But she said she took particular umbrage at having her individual freedoms trampled over.