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https://arstechnica.com
/science/2021/09/hospit
al-staff-must-swear-
off-tylenol-tums-to-
get-religious-vaccine-
exemption/
Hospital staff must
swear off Tylenol, Tums
to get religious
vaccine exemption
Hospital CEO aims to
educate staff on the
full scope of what
they're claiming.
by Beth Mole - Sep 16,
2021 12:41pm EST
A hospital system in
Arkansas is making it a
bit more difficult for
staff to receive a
religious exemption
from its COVID-19
vaccine mandate. The
hospital is now
requiring staff to also
swear off extremely
common medicines, such
as Tylenol, Tums, and
even Preparation H, to
get the exemption.
The move was prompted
when Conway Regional
Health System noted an
unusual uptick in
vaccine exemption
requests that cited the
use of fetal cell lines
in the development and
testing of the
vaccines.
"This was significantly
disproportionate to
what we've seen with
the influenza vaccine,"
Matt Troup, president
and CEO of Conway
Regional Health System,
told Becker's Hospital
Review in an interview
Wednesday.
"Thus," Troup went on,
"we provided a
religious attestation
form for those
individuals requesting
a religious exemption,"
he said. The form
includes a list of 30
commonly used medicines
that "fall into the
same category as the
COVID-19 vaccine in
their use of fetal cell
lines," Conway Regional
said.
The list includes
Tylenol, Pepto Bismol,
aspirin, Tums, Lipitor,
Senokot, Motrin,
ibuprofen, Maalox, Ex-
Lax, Benadryl, Sudafed,
albuterol, Preparation
H, MMR vaccine,
Claritin, Zoloft,
Prilosec OTC, and
azithromycin.
Conway Regional notes
that the list includes
commonly used and
available drugs but
that it is not an all-
inclusive list of such
medicines.
Employees are asked to
attest that they
"truthfully acknowledge
and affirm that my
sincerely held
religious belief is
consistent and true"
and that they do not
and will not use the
medications and any
others like them.
The intent of the form
is twofold, Troup says.
First, the hospital
wants to ensure that
staff members are
sincere in their stated
beliefs, he said, and
second, it wants to
"educate staff who
might have requested an
exemption without
understanding the full
scope of how fetal
cells are used in
testing and development
in common medicines."
Troup says that
employees who do not
sign the attestation
form will be granted a
provisional exemption,
which is only
temporary. They may be
asked to sign the
attestation later and,
as the attestation
notes, if they fail to
get an exemption or a
vaccine, they face
disciplinary action,
including termination.
In an interview with an
NBC-affiliated outlet
in Arkansas, Troup
noted that only about 5
percent of the hospital
system's staff had
filed for a religious
or medical exemption
and that the rest of
the workforce is
partially or fully
vaccinated.
“A lot of this, I
believe, is a hesitancy
about the vaccine, and
so that’s a separate
issue than a religious
exemption,” he said.
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