A defiant nurse lashes out over COVID vaccine mandate

Jennifer Semrow worked for 12 years as a certified nursing assistant and put herself through college as a single mother of two young children, finally graduating as a registered nurse around the time coronavirus hit.

Now the Middletown resident holds a great job at a rehabilitation provider in Connecticut, working with patients and long-term residents, doing what she loves, for good money.

And she’s willing to give it up — all because she declines to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

“Let them fire me,” Semrow

told me as she and some friends protested the state’s back-to-school mask mandate at the state Capitol over the weekend. “It’s my right.”

The 33-year-old Semrow insists she is not, in her