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Nurse sues Boston hospital that fired her after she refused to take COVID-19 vaccine

A self-described pagan fired from her nursing job at Boston Medical Center has sued the hospital over her termination for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.

Amy Munroe of Hamilton, Massachusetts, had worked as a nurse at BMC for 23 years before her firing, according to a Nov. 15 lawsuit file in U.S. District Court in Boston.

The veteran nurse said she’d “had COVID very recently and the immune system that Mother Nature provided me with got me through it,” according to a religious exemption request she filed with the hospital. Taking “a genetic therapy treatment that I am extremely fearful of,” she wrote, “goes completely against beliefs that I have held most of my life.