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Only 38 Percent of Health Care Workers Get Flu Vaccine
[PROVE note: It certainly isn't because the vaccine isn't available to them
why most health care workers won't get the flu shot. If the people giving the flu vaccine and promoting it won't take it themselves, why should anyone else want it? Maybe doctor really does know best in this instance...] Only 38 Percent of Health Care Workers Get Flu Vaccine - Yahoo! News Posted: Tuesday January 24, 2006 - 07:00:30 am LiveScience StaffLiveScience.com Tue Jan 24, 10:00 AM ET In a study of 1,651 U.S. healthcare workers, only 38 percent were vaccinated against the flu. Influenza is the sixth leading cause of death in the nation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends vaccinating healthcare workers with direct patient contact as a priority to prevent spread of the disease. Vaccination rates were particularly low in workers who were health aides, African American or under 50. The study, led by researchers at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Harvard University, will be detailed in the February edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. It was based on data from a survey done in 2000. The low vaccination rates increase the odds that health care workers will get the flu and transmit it to their patients, the researchers said. They recommend education campaigns to raise vaccination rates among the groups least likely to be getting the shots. The report was funded by the National Institutes of Health. |
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Only 38 Percent of Health Care Workers Get Flu Vaccine
Hmmm, it would seem that the flu vaccine is recommended for people in
certain groups (age, ailments, etc) for whom getting the flu might put their life at risk. 38% of health care workers may be in those categories (asthma comes to mind as a common ailment). Likely, healthy health care workers would be in the last category of people to be offered flu vaccine, if the supply holds out. "john" wrote in message ... [PROVE note: It certainly isn't because the vaccine isn't available to them why most health care workers won't get the flu shot. If the people giving the flu vaccine and promoting it won't take it themselves, why should anyone else want it? Maybe doctor really does know best in this instance...] Only 38 Percent of Health Care Workers Get Flu Vaccine - Yahoo! News Posted: Tuesday January 24, 2006 - 07:00:30 am LiveScience StaffLiveScience.com Tue Jan 24, 10:00 AM ET In a study of 1,651 U.S. healthcare workers, only 38 percent were vaccinated against the flu. Influenza is the sixth leading cause of death in the nation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends vaccinating healthcare workers with direct patient contact as a priority to prevent spread of the disease. Vaccination rates were particularly low in workers who were health aides, African American or under 50. The study, led by researchers at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Harvard University, will be detailed in the February edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. It was based on data from a survey done in 2000. The low vaccination rates increase the odds that health care workers will get the flu and transmit it to their patients, the researchers said. They recommend education campaigns to raise vaccination rates among the groups least likely to be getting the shots. The report was funded by the National Institutes of Health. |
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Only 38 Percent of Health Care Workers Get Flu Vaccine
true. But I would not want it as last time I had to call the GP out in
the middle of the night because I had a bad reaction from it. Pam |
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Only 38 Percent of Health Care Workers Get Flu Vaccine
true. But I would not want it as last time I had to call the GP out in
the middle of the night because I had a bad reaction from it. Pam |
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Only 38 Percent of Health Care Workers Get Flu Vaccine
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john wrote: [PROVE note: It certainly isn't because the vaccine isn't available to them why most health care workers won't get the flu shot. If the people giving the flu vaccine and promoting it won't take it themselves, why should anyone else want it? Maybe doctor really does know best in this instance...] Where, in this article, does it say that doctors aren't getting the flu shot? Answer: it doesn't. Poor illiterate John. -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If you can't say something nice, then sit next to me." -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Only 38 Percent of Health Care Workers Get Flu Vaccine - Yahoo! News Posted: Tuesday January 24, 2006 - 07:00:30 am LiveScience StaffLiveScience.com Tue Jan 24, 10:00 AM ET In a study of 1,651 U.S. healthcare workers, only 38 percent were vaccinated against the flu. Influenza is the sixth leading cause of death in the nation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends vaccinating healthcare workers with direct patient contact as a priority to prevent spread of the disease. Vaccination rates were particularly low in workers who were health aides, African American or under 50. The study, led by researchers at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Harvard University, will be detailed in the February edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. It was based on data from a survey done in 2000. The low vaccination rates increase the odds that health care workers will get the flu and transmit it to their patients, the researchers said. They recommend education campaigns to raise vaccination rates among the groups least likely to be getting the shots. The report was funded by the National Institutes of Health. |
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