The For-Profit World of Religious Vaccine Exemptions

For the past few weeks, Ruth Graham has been logging on to Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, to eavesdrop. Graham reports on religion for the New York Times. She was interested in QAnon, at first.  It's hard for Graham to describe what she's been hearing. Is it religious chatter? Political? Lately, these personal anecdotes have begun to focus on one topic in particular: whether your job can require you to get a COVID vaccine and whether your religion might get you exempted if your employer is clamping down. "There's a rising desperation in some of these quarters to find a way out of these mandates," Graham says.