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- ↑ "Covid vaccine: Why these US workers won't get jabbed". BBC News. October 10, 2021. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
Leah Cushman is prepared to lose her nursing job rather than get vaccinated. "My beliefs are religious. I believe that my creator endowed me with an immune system that protects me, and if I get sick, that's an act of God. [...]" said Ms Cushman.
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