ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Dozens of protesters demonstrated outside Mercy Hospital South on Kennerly Drive in St. Louis Thursday evening. They waved American flags and held up signs against vaccinations and mandates.
Hospital spokesman Joe Poelker said he believed they were many of the same people who demonstrated at a hospital in Jefferson County on Aug. 10, and at Mercy St. Louis Hospital in July. He acknowledged some of them were likely employees protesting Mercy's mandate that workers be vaccinated against coronavirus.
Poelker added that the demonstrators have a right to free speech, and they were staying on the public sidewalk and were no interfering with either traffic or the function of the hospital. The signs told of much the same messages about freedom and human rights as heard recently in school board meetings and at the St. Louis County Council.
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