About 60 people, many of them nurses, staged a protest on Randall Road in front of Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin on Wednesday. They said they opposed parent company Advocate Aurora Health’s mandate that employees be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Oct. 15. (Rick West | Staff Photographer)
Holding signs reading “My body, my choice” and “I call the shots,” about 60 protesters, many of them nurses, lined Randall Road in front of Advocate Sherman Hospital on Wednesday to rally against the hospital chain’s vaccination mandate for employees.
Sherman’s parent company, Advocate Aurora Health, will require employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Oct. 15, affecting about 75,000 people.
“We’re here to fight for our rights, for the freedom of choice,” said Jacquie Loiacono, an ICU nurse at Sherman who helped organize the protest. She said another rally is planned for Thursday at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital near Barrington.
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