Methodist joins list of hospitals now requiring employees be vaccinated

DALLAS (1080 KRLD)- The Methodist Health System in Dallas will require all of its employees to get the COVID vaccine by October 1st.

In a memo to employees, executives say it's because of the very contagious Delta variant.

Houston Methodist required its employees to be vaccinated earlier this summer , and fired 153 employees who refused to get the shot. Baylor Scott and White ordered its employees to get vaccinated this week.

The Methodist Health System in Dallas is offering exemptions to employees for medical or religious regions.

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