Despite a planned rally in Albany Tuesday to protest a state regulation requiring health care workers be vaccinated against influenza-both seasonal and swine flu-New York’s top public health official predicts dissenters will ultimately extinguish their anger and roll up their sleeves.The regulation, which was approved in August, comes with a stinging addendum: Get vaccinated or get fired.But some nurses and many other health care providers say the regulation violates their personal freedom and leaves them vulnerable to vaccine injury. And they cite deaths associated with the last federal government swine-flu vaccination program in 1976.Refusing to be immunized against H1N1 because of the vaccine debacle in 1976 “is like saying a plane crashed 33 years ago so I’ll never fly again,” said Dr. Richard Daines, New York State health commissioner....Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Mandatory Inmunizations for 500,000 in NY...
Despite a planned rally in Albany Tuesday to protest a state regulation requiring health care workers be vaccinated against influenza-both seasonal and swine flu-New York’s top public health official predicts dissenters will ultimately extinguish their anger and roll up their sleeves.The regulation, which was approved in August, comes with a stinging addendum: Get vaccinated or get fired.But some nurses and many other health care providers say the regulation violates their personal freedom and leaves them vulnerable to vaccine injury. And they cite deaths associated with the last federal government swine-flu vaccination program in 1976.Refusing to be immunized against H1N1 because of the vaccine debacle in 1976 “is like saying a plane crashed 33 years ago so I’ll never fly again,” said Dr. Richard Daines, New York State health commissioner....
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