A nurse in Arizona was fired after she refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons, calling the spiritual exemption process an “overreach” and “beyond intrusive.
Kaitlin Elcock, alongside hundreds of her former colleagues, appeared on “Fox & Friends First” to discuss her termination from Mayo Clinic.
“It was heart-wrenching. It was devastating,” Eclock told the TV station. “The whole process of the religious exemption was beyond intrusive, and I feel like it put my religion and my faith on trial, and that’s complete overreach from Mayo and should not have happened in the first place.”
Elcock told Fox’s Todd Piro and Ashley Strohmier about the hypocrisy surrounding her firing, claiming that the Clinic is allowing workers who have tested positive for COVID-19 to continue working during their shifts.
“It’s super unfortunate because there are vaccinated coworkers who have been exposed, and they’re waiting for their test result to come back, and they’re still allowing them to come to work,” Elcock explained. Their test result is coming back positive towards the end of the shift, and they’ve already worked that whole shift with the patient, and they’re not even sending them home,” she continued.
“No one should have to make this choice,” Elcock said of the ongoing vaccine mandate debate. My plan is to put myself and my family first,” Elcock continued. “I got into nursing to care for people, and I will find a way to do that, whether that’s here in state with an employer that will respect my decisions, or out of state.”
