November 14, 2021
State Agency Imposes Vax-Or-Else Policy
by Michael Quinn Sullivan
Despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order, UTHealth Houston is the latest state agency to impose President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its employees and others.
UTHealth is a division of the University of Texas System and falls under the authority of the UT Board of Regents, the Higher Education Coordinating Board, the governor of Texas, and the Texas Legislature.
In an email blast sent just before noon on November 17, UT Health Houston’s president, Giuseppe N. Colasurdo, wrote that due to mandates from the “federal government,” everyone must be vaccinated by January 4, 2022, or face termination. The policy applies to all “faculty, staff, residents, fellows, contractors, vendors, and volunteers.”
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