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The New York State Health Department is now requiring mandatory seasonal and swine flu vaccinations for all hospital, home health and hospice workers. No other state or city agency in America has such a requirement, and a coalition of local health care workers unions are considering filing a lawsuit to block it. Less than half of all health care workers across America get an annual flu shot, and Dr. Julie Gerberding, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, thinks the New York requirement is "a big deal." She tells the Times it's time for "a more aggressive approach," not just for the protection of workers, but also for patients with weak immune systems.
Interestingly, Gerberding's CDC successor, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the former NYC Health Commissioner, thinks the timing's all wrong for mandatory vaccinations: "This is just not the right flu season to take this on." That's because the CDC is already scrambling to get both seasonal and swine flu vaccinations to workers, and the swine flu vaccination is still being tested.
Another way hospitals have expanded vaccinations is with incentives like raffles for Caribbean vacations. But Jana Newton, a housekeeper at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, would still rather suit up with a mask, gloves, gown and hairnet, telling the Times, "Some people’s immune system is good, like me. I’ve been here five years and never been sick. Why mess with something that’s not broken?"
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Bloomberg the Dicktator is now forcing vaccinations? It never ends ....
This is not much different from existing measures to control hospital-acquired infections. Maybe you'd like to get mad about surgeons having to scrub their hands and wear gloves and surgical masks for surgery.
Scrubbing hands and wearing gloves don't have the side affects that forced vaccinations do. Obviously not a comparison. One is an intrusion on one's body while the other is hospital gear.
Interestingly, a great many people get vaccinations voluntarily. And don't get sick. All of this hand-wringing about side effects and how some still get it anyway rings hollow. It's obviously helping some people. Indeed, this reminds me of the hysteria surrounding childhood vaccines supposedly causing autism, something no scientific study has ever found a connection for.
If you bothered to read the very first line of the article, you would have seen that this mandate is coming from the New York State Health Department.
Bloomberg has nothing to do with this.
Wait till the feds start forcing the under tested, highly questionable swine flu vaccine on all of us.
Many people I know who get vaccinated for the flu get it anyway.
Welcome to Obama's new Socialist America. This country is getting scarier by the minute.
The CDC is a known corrupt government agency. Ignore everything it says, especially it's constant fear mongering about swine flu. Their untested "vaccine" will kill you before swine flu ever does.
Ah, yes, the obligatory wingnut laying blame on Obama and the CDC. Maybe you should try to read the post and charm city cupcake's comment again, if that isn't too much a drain on your remaining brain cells. This is being mandated by the New York State Health Department, not the city, not the CDC. Last I saw, the Health Department wasn't run by Obama.
It has begun!
the flu vaccine is the same if not worse than actually getting infected by the virus.
actually, if you've never had the flu, by just getting that vaccine, you're in for a treat.
good luck to all those workers.
where shall we run to escape such an intrution to our body?
intrusion*
fascist pigs of new york state.