( October 23, 2025, 11:20 AM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed the firing of a Maryland hospital employee over a refusal to get a COVID-19 vaccine after she was denied a religious exemption, finding that the lower court was correct in granting summary judgment to the hospital as the exemption “would have jeopardized patient safety and increased the risk of disruptive outbreaks in a sensitive environment.”...