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Clinics routinely require staff and physicians to be vaccinated against the flu lest there be an exemption on file. Granted this article shared that the rate i
by CrazyCatDog 5y ago
Clinics routinely require staff and physicians to be vaccinated against the flu lest there be an exemption on file.
Granted this article shared that the rate is low, it also surfaced mandates for healthcare:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020194/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020194/
- podgaj 5y agoI have never heard of a population wide mandate for a flu vaccine however. And since 2004 the average effectiveness for the flu vaccine is about 40% so I guess if you are in a high risk group it might increase your survival a bit, but not enough effectiveness for a national mandate. The death rate of the flu is about 0.01% for all populations. I mean, would you get a surgery that had a 40% success rate if your chance of dying without the surgery was 0.01%?
- CrazyCatDog 5y agoYou are basing your argument on population based statistics. Healthcare workers are an important, large, and uniquely at risk sub-population. Should you rx chemo therapy this afternoon? Probably not… unless you have a known tumor. Radiating random people off the street is not a good idea—I fully agree!
- podgaj 5y agoYes, which is why we should be only vaccinating "important, large, and uniquely at risk sub-population"s. I do not mind mandates for vaccines for certain workers, but for young bartenders?
- jokowueu 5y agoThat's a false equivalence . A jab isn't as evasive as surgery, it doesn't carry the same risks,costs,time etc
- codr7 5y agoHow can you be so sure?