Several hundred demonstrators, some self-identified healthcare workers, gathered outside two California hospitals on Monday to protest the state’s requirement that industry workers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

The protests, organized by America’s Healthcare Workers for Medical Freedom, follow the state Department of Public Health’s announcement that workers in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, long-term care homes, and adjacent fields must be vaccinated by Sept. 30.

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