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In reply to the discussion: Eight Hospital Employees Fired For Refusing Flu Vaccines [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)37. It should include any employees who have access to patient rooms
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Am not a nurse and for years I didn't take the flu shot. But when I hit 62 I started taking
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#4
Actually the CDC now recommends it for everyone, unless the person is allergic to the vaccine
still_one
Jan 2013
#103
I think if you are in a medical field you should get it. Especially if they work in hospitals.
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#104
Then no one should be allowed in the hospital without proof of having received a flu shot
snappyturtle
Jan 2013
#5
Actually some hospitals are banning children to try and keep it under control
cstanleytech
Jan 2013
#17
It's actually not that good a point. Nurses are hovering over patients 24/7. Visitors and doctors...
Moonwalk
Jan 2013
#105
Did you get a three-day flu or did you get a virus that laid you out flat for months...
Moonwalk
Jan 2013
#140
Fine by me, but you should read up on the influenza virus of 1918. It's why we have...
Moonwalk
Jan 2013
#187
wrong- from the article "Of the hospital's 26,000 employees statewide, 95 percent complied...
Beaverhausen
Jan 2013
#121
not even close. Do visitors deal with patients everyday? This is not only to protect the hospital
still_one
Jan 2013
#106
It's true that viruses and bacteria are little, wee things, but as Shakespeare said...
Hekate
Jan 2013
#95
Quote: "What is wrong with folks who want to sack people for the little things?"
Hekate
Jan 2013
#128
Why do you hate old people and babies that get the flu while in the hospital?
Major Nikon
Jan 2013
#148
Disease is spread mostly by touch, not whether one is sick or not. And even then
SWTORFanatic
Jan 2013
#170
At what point are you willing to make a person sacrifice their bodily autonomy for
SWTORFanatic
Jan 2013
#184
The point at which it places other lives at danger isn't a bad place to start
Major Nikon
Jan 2013
#188
No, it is more sore than "makes me angry when I try to work out" - it is sore enough
SWTORFanatic
Jan 2013
#193
I wonder if the nasal vaccine would be better for you. People coming to work sick makes me
uppityperson
Jan 2013
#150
The noose is rapidly closing in on the collective neck of health freedom in America,
lunasun
Jan 2013
#2
If Mary had washed her hands (or better, washed her hands and wore gloves)
SWTORFanatic
Jan 2013
#143
The person who makes your sandwich should have the freedom to not wash their hands.
alphafemale
Jan 2013
#15
So they stay home, as they would if they had a cold or any other communicable illness.
Puzzledtraveller
Jan 2013
#72
No one is forcing her to work there. She is free to borrow $20k from her parents and
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#134
I wish the obviously sick grocery packer who packed my groceries this evening
snappyturtle
Jan 2013
#10
It can be devastating to me too if I miss 3 days of work due to contact with her. Where
snappyturtle
Jan 2013
#43
Management may not allow her to work even with a mask and masks only work for a short
uppityperson
Jan 2013
#153
+1000 - when I taught 6th grade, I got sick every other week b/c the kids were sent to school sick
wordpix
Jan 2013
#161
Lying there in the hospital in a weakened state, immune system compromised, infant or oldster...
Hekate
Jan 2013
#9
A large portion of people in our State got the shot and still got the flu. The flu
glinda
Jan 2013
#12
It takes a while for the flu shot to build up the immunity. If you have the shot and
Mojorabbit
Jan 2013
#16
You are right: that is classic influenza and it can kill. I'm currently reading...
Hekate
Jan 2013
#38
The problem for the Hospital is this nurse was permitted NOT to take the vaccine for 21 years.
happyslug
Jan 2013
#24
my mom has advanced Alzheimer's & home health aides coming & going 24/7, along with me who works
wordpix
Jan 2013
#36
we use the gloves but the masks are a great idea - they'd probably scare her, though
wordpix
Jan 2013
#159
Yeah, that might not be a good idea, i.e. the mask. Don't do mask if it scares her.
ReRe
Jan 2013
#163
similar to my Mom at home /w family care 24/7. Was routine, her Dr. always gave the flu vaccine.
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#76
I haven't taken mom for flu vaccine, and she hasn't had flu for 5 yrs. with Alzheimer's
wordpix
Jan 2013
#158
May their convictions towards their own personal choices find them well in their next career(s)...
Earth_First
Jan 2013
#49
Several years ago, I worked in a hospital in which employees were told to take flu shots.
AdHocSolver
Jan 2013
#50
At least in California if a healthcare person who deals with patients does not take the flu vaccine,
still_one
Jan 2013
#102
I get the flu shot every year now. Especially since that new strain cropped up that
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#135
I wonder how high on the pay scale and close to retirement these nurses were. nt
eilen
Jan 2013
#138
A nurse that gets a flu shot but does not wash his or her hands is far more
SWTORFanatic
Jan 2013
#145
Who stands close to a couching or sneezing person? If you do that I guess you are asking to get sick
SWTORFanatic
Jan 2013
#178
CAN spread up to 6 feet, but unlikely. And again, you have to be sick (so you should stay home if
SWTORFanatic
Jan 2013
#182
No, do you have problems reading? It says surfaces less often. It does not say
SWTORFanatic
Jan 2013
#185
every fly in a plane or go to the store? you are exposed and close to sick people & share the air.
Sunlei
Jan 2013
#192
I have no sympathy for them. One of my friends almost died from influenza this week. n/t
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#151
Hey, hospitals are not hiring someone if they are a nicotine user on their own time. What is the
Purveyor
Jan 2013
#152
Taking the flu vaccine would have little effect on passing the disease to someone else.
AdHocSolver
Jan 2013
#200
Contracting the flu when you are already sick enough to be hospitalized can be
appleannie1
Jan 2013
#201
There is no evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers prevents flu in elderly patients.
Prometheus Bound
Jan 2013
#211