Cox Health has dismissed 64 employees who did not get vaccinated against COVID-19.

That’s less than one-percent of its more than 12,500 employees.

Cox asked its employees to get their first shot by October 15.

CEO Steve Edwards says hospitals have required employee vaccinations for decades.

Hospitals have required employee vaccination for decades. A patient should expect not to be exposed to a deadly disease while in the hospital.

At our final deadline, 64 out of 12,500 employees, 0.51%, chose not to comply with our policy and were discharged.

We are safer now.

— Steve Edwards (@SDECoxHealth) November 23, 2021