IRVINE, Calif.—A group of Pomona Valley Hospital nurses and other healthcare workers have hired an attorney in response to an emailed form letter they received from Pomona Valley Hospital administrators denying their requests for religious exemption from the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The Epoch Times obtained a copy of the blanket email sent Aug. 31, giving employees three days prior to the Labor Day holiday to comply by providing additional information to substantiate their religious exemption applications. The form letter denial stated, “We received your COVID-19 vaccine religious exemption request. After thorough review of your request, we are informing you that the Hospital has concluded that the request should be denied on the grounds that it does not establish a sufficient basis for granting an exemption from the vaccination requirement. “If you wish to provide additional information for us to consider, you may do so, but we are most interested …