"The owner of KXII, Gray Television, acknowledges that he has a basis for an accommodation but they fired him anyway, saying unvaccinated people in his position pose an undue hardship." "Dan has an allergy to two of the ingredients in the shots and his doctor advised him not to take the vaccine," his father wrote on the fundraiser page. He has raised over $3,000 worth of donations out of a total goal of $5,000. The anchor's father, Dave Thomas, set up an online fundraiser to raise money to help his son pay his family expenses. They just said it would be an undue hardship to the company to have me employed there." "They didn't care what the vaccine did to me or its side effects or my past medical history," Thomas said in a video he posted on October 6.
Thomas said that he filled out the paperwork that the company provided for COVID vaccine mandate exemptions and received a "generic" response several days later stating that his request for accommodation was turned down. The company's mandate has been in effect since October 1. Gray Television, which owns KXII, has required all its employees to get vaccinated against COVID, according to Adweek. But, despite this medical exemption, he was fired. Thomas, who worked as the evening anchor at KXII, a CBS and Fox affiliate in Sherman, Texas since 2014, was told by his doctor earlier this month that he can't take the shots because he is allergic to two of the ingredients in the COVID vaccine. Texas news anchor Dan Thomas was recently fired from his position for not getting vaccinated against COVID-19 despite having a medical exemption.
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