In 2019, Chelsea Sheppard was saving lives and instructing medical students at the University of Virginia (UVA). When the pandemic hit, she would take on extra shifts and follow all the university’s health requirements. The university would reward her long hours and dedication to the Covid-19 response, then terminate her two years later, denying her religious exemption from a vaccine still considered a medical experiment.
Sheppard was a clinical pathologist specializing in transfusion medicine and blood banking and served as a regional medical director for the American Red Cross before being hired as an associate professor by UVA. She was
