Mandatory Vaccination

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to Arthur Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, "If you can get close to 100 percent vaccination rates [among healthcare workers]; you can cut patient death rates from flu by 40 percent." Health care workers can be the cause many death as well as the spread of the flu if they deny being vaccinated.
Some health care workers object to the mandatory aspect of vaccination, rather than receiving the actual vaccination. Joel Shufro, executive director of a coalition of 200 local unions in New York stated that the unions do not oppose vaccination, "But we oppose a mandatory program. This is: `You don't get the shot, you're fired.'" However, in order to work in the health care industry, there are already pre-required vaccinations the workers must have. "Every state requires health workers to be immunized against measles, mumps, and polio, and the unions do not object." Why should demanding the immunization against the flu be any ...

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