In this June 7, 2021, photo, demonstrators at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas, wave at cars that honk at them to support their protest against a policy that says hospital employees must get vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs. Religious exemptions are increasingly becoming a workaround for hospital and nursing home staff who want to keep their jobs in the face of federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates that are going into effect nationwide this week. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
