More than 400 medical professionals in Southern California rallied outside Riverside Community Hospital on Aug. 9 to protest the state’s requirement that all health workers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. According to members from America’s Healthcare Workers for Medical Freedom (AHWMF), the organizer, so far they have held seven such rallies across California, including one in Orange county with over 500 participants. The California Department of Public Health issued an announcement on Aug. 5 that workers in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, long-term care homes, and other health care-related fields must be vaccinated by Sept. 30. The Golden State is the first state to enact such a requirement. Heather K., one of the founders of AHWMF, told The Epoch Times that many participants are frontline health workers during the pandemic. “We’re not anti-vaccine, we’re anti-mandate,” she explained. “We’ve worked the whole entire year and a half, and now they want to …