A federal judge on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit brought by 117 Houston Methodist staff over the medical facilitys policy needing all employees to be immunized against COVID-19. Hughes previously this month rejected the plaintiffs request for a short-term limiting order to block the suspension.The judge stated the public interest in “caring for patients during a pandemic far outweighs safeguarding the vaccination preferences of 116 employees,” keeping in mind the staff were “threatening” their own health” and that of others.What theyre stating: Houston Methodist stated in an emailed statement that it was pleased the judge had actually dismissed the “unimportant lawsuit,” which made false claims that COVID-19 vaccines werent safe, despite the administering of over 300 million dosages and falls in positive cases and hospitalizations proving they do work.Marc Boom, president and CEO of Houston Methodist said in the statement: “We can now put this behind us … All our employees have now satisfied the requirements of the vaccine policy and I could not be prouder of them.”Read the judges judgment in complete, via DocumentCloud: Editors note: This short article has actually been updated with new details throughout and to fix the gender of the judge.