These medical professionals in the early stages were suffering from higher PTSD scores, depression, and anxiety. Many healthcare workers at the beginning of the pandemic saw workers get sick and die from COVID almost right in front of them, and this contributed to their increased stress and anxiety. We did push them to the limit when we didn't have massive testing or massive vaccines, I hate to say it, in the past administration. According to the University of Chicago, it was found that an increase in staff vaccination rates resulted in fewer COVID cases among staff and patients. My final words, Mr. Speaker, is, yeah, this is a free country. Laissez-faire, do as you will, but this mandate for medical workers saved their lives, saved patients' lives, and saved families' lives. I don't understand why we are going down this route where soon it will happen in good time, but since I remember 6 million dead around the world as the number that is gleaming and 1.11 million in the United States, this legislation is not going in the right direction. I ask for opposition to the underlying legislation.
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