Actor Steve Burton has been let go from General Hospital for failing to comply with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, just weeks after another cast member , Ingo Rademacher, departed for the same reason.

I wanted you to hear it from me personally, Burton said in a video posted on Instagram Tuesday . Unfortunately, General Hospital has let me go because of the vaccine mandate. I did apply for my medical and religious exemptions, and both of those were denied. Which, you know, hurts. But this is also about personal freedom to me.

Well said my friend, commented Rademacher, whose own Instagram page is full of anti-vaccine misinformation .