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Some workers expect to be let go because they won’t sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine appointment yet. ""Bob Nevens"", Houston Methodist’s director of corporate risk and insurance, told the Houston Press that he was suspended for two weeks without pay and expects to be let go this month.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/Houston-Methodist-COVID-vaccine-refusal-fire-16121140.php

Posts from a Bob Nevens Found on Change.org, no way to know its him..

My name is Bob Nevens and I have been the Director of Corporate Risk for the last ten years at Houston Methodist Hospital System. I was fired April 15th after being given just 15 days to take the Covid-19 vaccine. My position is not clinical, and I have worked from home for the past year because of covid. There are many more details I left out that will come to light in the future.

It's heartbreaking to have this happen. My civil rights and liberties have been trampled on. My right to protect myself from unknown side effects of these vaccines has been placed below the optics of "Leading Medicine." I really feel I have been retaliated and discriminated against for choosing personal conviction and personal choices over complying with their brand-new vaccine policy that violates federal laws and the constitution. I am not against vaccines by any stretch.

Houston Methodist is the first company in Texas and possibly the country to make the covid vaccines mandatory. They have been all over national news since the beginning. They gave me just 15 days because I was in a leadership role to make the decision while just yesterday, they announced the remaining holdouts, over 4,200 clinical and staff employees (nearly 20% of their employees), will have until June 7th to comply. I got 15 days and they have nearly two months. Many of those 4,200 employees may live paycheck to paycheck, a large percentage are minorities, and they will be forced into doing something they may not agree with or feel comfortable doing just keep food on the table and pay their mortgage. They will get no severance just as I didn't. I believe in what I'm doing. I believe in personal freedoms.

Leadership has made a costly decision in hopes of staying ahead of HB1687, legislation that will make it illegal for employers to discriminate against vaccine status.

Like millions of Americans, all I wanted was to wait until the vaccines are licensed and approved by the FDA and make a well informed decision then. I have been praying for a compromise but the organization seems unwilling to grant extend time or accommodate a ten year, high performing, highly rated employee. I will fall on this sword in hopes that it helps other employees that will soon face the same horrible, anxiety causing decision.

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Vaccines should be a Choice2

From: Nevens jr, Bob J.

Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2021 8:29 AM

To: Burns, Kevin J. CFO

Cc: Boom, Marc L., M.D. ; Hackett, Carole ; Cantu, Mick ; Dowdell, Arianne D.

Subject:

As the systems’ Risk Manager, I raise the following concerns:

1. Simply stated, starting with corporate leaders is optics in hopes of a downward push to force staff and clinical into taking the vaccines. We are all individuals with individual beliefs and convictions. This approach seems at odds with the diversity and inclusion practices at Methodist and in fact, on its face, creates division. Thousands of the employees that will be forced to take the vaccine or lose their job are minorities, who as we all know, have the highest percentage of vaccine hesitancy and rightfully so. This mandatory vaccine program will have a negative impact on their lives, much more than it will on mine. I pray for them.

1. State and federal laws do not address FDA approvals as a perquisite to make a vaccine mandatory. It is silent on that matter. Despite what the EEOC says, I believe this decision has exposed the individual Board Members to D&O claims and the organization overall to employment litigation, perhaps even mass litigation. This isn’t an issue of religious or medical exemption denials. The courts easily uphold those in favor of the employer. This is an untested issue on civil rights, personal healthcare choices, and mandating nonapproved unlicensed vaccines that are still in clinical trials.

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1. All of the EUA’s state the vaccine is currently in clinical trials and that there may be potential side effects unknown at this time. Mandating something that has unknown future side effects, is not FDA approved, and has incomplete clinical trials is irresponsible. In addition, each EUA states, “This vaccine is an unapproved vaccine that may prevent Covid 19. There is no FDA approved vaccine to prevent Covid 19”.

1. I have privacy concerns about the Corporate Employee Covid Non-Compliance spreadsheet floating around with names of corporate employees (including myself). The sheet indicates the names of those that have not received the vaccine, if they requested a religious or medical exemption, and the status of the exemption. This is in violation of Section III.C under Management Responsibilities of the Covid 19 Vaccination Policy. This sheet has been shared with many people in the organization who have no right or authority to see who hasn’t received the vaccine and their exemption status.

1. Each EUA states, “This vaccine is an unapproved vaccine that may prevent Covid 19. There is no FDA approved vaccine to prevent Covid 19.” An EUA is not a form of FDA approval as Dr. Phillip’s states in his 4/8 email. To quote the Pfiser Vaccine EUA, “The Pfiser-BioNTech covid 19 vaccine has not undergone the same type of review as an FDA approved or cleared product.” This wording is consistent in all three of the vaccines’ EUAs and conflicts with the statement from the 4/8 email that states “the vaccines went through the same trials that other drugs use.”

Like millions of Americans, all I wanted was to wait until the vaccines are licensed and approved by the FDA and make a well informed decision then. I will fall on this sword in hopes that it helps other employees that will soon face the same horrible, anxiety causing decision.

Respectfully,

Bob Nevens, Jr.

Director, Corporate Risk & Insurance

Houston Methodist

Houston Methodist

https://www.change.org/p/houston-methodist-covid-vaccine-should-not-be-mandatory-or-termination/f

Bob Nevens JR IMBD cross reference with both linkedin accts same guy. Production company calledBlack 17 Productions

Mini Bio (1)

Born in Little Rock, raised in Nashville, and now residing in Houston, RJ always had a knack for pushing a pencil around on a piece of paper. Even in gr

Bob Nevens JR IMBD cross reference with both linkedin accts Same guy. He's a producer of movies and Director of Corporate Insurance at HM

Mini Bio (1)

Born in Little Rock, raised in Nashville, and now residing in Houston, RJ always had a knack for pushing a pencil around on a piece of paper. Even in grade school he was already submitting short stories to various publications and, in fact, still has some of the old letters from those publications editors. Nevens graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a B.A. in Political Science.His work takes him around the globe. However, RJ is more comfortable in a chair writing a good story. His feature screenplay Walking Point, made waves during 2014 and 2015 by winning or being an official finalist in several screenplay competitions. He has since adapted the script to a novel that received rave reviews. His psychological thriller screenplay Tartarus: The Devil's Basement was recent directed by RJ and produced by his production company Black 17 Productions. It has won several awards on the film festival circuit. Nevens co-wrote The League of Legend Keepers: Shadows with the young, talented actress and writer Isabella Blake-Thomas in 2016 and Sand Angels with Elizabeth Blake-Thomas, both of which have completed filming and have distribution deals. RJ has been a producer on several award winning documentaries, as well.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5715927/mediaindex?refine=publicity&ref_=nm_mv_close

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rj-nevens-jr-51225a73/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-nevens-jr-025a1810/

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Vaccine may work but this is about personal choice