It’s bad enough our state attorney general Doug Peterson entered into the multi-state lawsuit to stop vaccine mandates (currently enjoined by the District Court for the District of Eastern Missouri).

Hospital administrators in the area are also promoting wingnut propaganda about vaccines. Quoting Box Butte General Hospital (county seat Alliance) CEO Lori Mazanec in the Alliance Times-Herald:

“The ultimate goal of the vaccine mandate, per CMS, is to keep patients safe,” said Mazanec. “Patients are and will continue to be safe in our hospital whether our team is vaccinated or not vaccinated. The current rate of eligible individuals vaccinated in the Nebraska Panhandle is 40 percent. Patients are not coming to the hospital for services and becoming ill with COVID. Patients seek care when sick with COVID and our teams provide the highest level of care and excellence with or without vaccinations. The authority for the COVID pandemic guidelines has been left with the states to govern. It should and needs to continue to remain at the state level.”

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