President Joe Biden is now moving orders forward to mandate vaccines for federal workers. In cities like New York, vaccines are required for members of the public to dine indoors, go to the gym and more.

To combat that, employers like the nation's major health care systems and local and state governments are enforcing vaccine mandates. Individuals 65-74 are five times more likely to be hospitalized and 90 times more likely to die from the coronavirus.Īs of Thursday, only about half of the United States is fully vaccinated as public health officials struggle to be heard, or believed, over the roar of online misinformation. Jon Cherry/Getty Imagesīohnak, 68, falls into the high-risk category for COVID-19 hospitalizations and death for his age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC). Claire Regional Medical Center on September 16, 2021, in Morehead, Kentucky. Above, rows of beds are seen in a tent used for monoclonal antibody treatment of COVID-19 patients outside of St. At points, Bohnak perpetuated misinformation about the pandemic and the COVID-19 vaccine, claiming that, for 'a normally healthy adult not housed in a nursing home or not suffering from serious comorbidities, the chance of surviving COVID is well over 99 percent' and suggesting that there is a risk for 'serious' vaccine side effects.Ī local weatherman in Michigan has said he's been fired from his news station for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

While many of the commenters were supportive of Bohnak, a great deal criticized the post and his refusal to vaccinate. The post has since accumulated more than 2,600 comments and 3,000 shares. 'It is also my right to choose the medical options I feel are right for me. Many of you have taken one of these injections, and that is absolutely your right,' Bohnak said in the Facebook post. 'Since I chose not to take one of the shots, I was fired. His departure, first reported by The Mining Journal, mirrors that of professionals across industries who have resigned or been fired for refusing the vaccine.īohnak said Gray Television, which owns WLUC-TV6, mandated that anyone entering a property owned by the company must show proof of vaccination. Karl Bohnak, who reported the weather for WLUC-TV6 for more than 30 years, said he was fired for refusing to get inoculated against COVID-19. In a Facebook post published Wednesday, a longtime weatherman in Michigan said he would no longer work for the local station WLUC-TV6 because of vaccine mandates handed down from its parent company.

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