| A Florida hospital has mandated that all employees receive seasonal flu virus vaccine. If they don't, they wear a mask. |
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Asked 31 days ago
by odessaphiles  United States |
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That one is right on the borderline. In matters of public health, people's rights to not be forced by the government go away. That is why we have sewer systems we all pay for through taxes, for example.
Hospital workers need to be available when the epidemic cranks up this winter, and that is one way to insure that they have the least down time due to the very disease that makes them so necessary. Also, it might decrease the odds of them spreading it to patients (I don't know for sure about that one).
On the other hand, not everyone is protected. Some people who would not have caught the flu end up with (hopefully) milder cases of it due to the vaccine.
As I said, a tough one--but I think I would come down on the side of public health on this one.
I would go for the mask, but a good quality mask.
I don't think there is a guarantee that the vaccine always works to prevent illness and I think a mask will help protect staff from other viruses, like Rubella.
You could think, other viruses aren't so important, but my daughter is 31 yrs old and she has Not had Any childhood illnesses.
Well, it sounds like a good decision. Making elementary and high school kids get vaccinated or wear one sounds like a good idea too. What do you think?
In my hospital, we used to wear masks after patients were diagnosed with something infectious. Now, any patient that comes in that has flu-like symptoms, the put a mask on them. Me I was exposed to it in the spring and went thru the Tamiflu regime. Who knows how many patients I've come in contact with that had it, but next week I'll be getting the H1N1 vaccine and we'll see what happens. The key thing to remember is if you feel like you have the flu, you probably do. BUT, if it accompanied by a fever, be concerned, but don't go nuts over it. Get checked out and plan on staying home a week. Should be interesting as the winter approaches...
Of course it's a good decicion to vaccinate hospital employees against dangerous diseases (yes, the flu is very dangerous to a lot of hospital patients). Any other opinion is completely crazy.
Some employees feel like the don't want to get vaccinated. This week, they started vaccinating school children here and many parents refused to let their children get it, maybe 40% of them. Go figure, they're the ones that are most in danger.
Blame Glenn Beck for that nonsense.
No, He was railing against Government mandates and statements by certain officials that quarantines might be necessary for those that chose not to vaccinate.
It's a poor subject to hang his Libertarian hat on and you can rightly accuse him of not having the sense God gave a goose, (on this issue) but please listen to the video instead of your usual left wing propaganda.
They have the right to refuse to be vaccinated. It's not a human right to work in a hospital though. You also have the right to be constantly drunk, but not to work as a bus driver at the same time.
Hospitals are among the most likely places to pick up infectious disease. I say good decision.
Wouldn't be a bad idea that you wear a mask, even if you felt fine, when going to the hospital. We have two main precaution cards we put on patients doors. The orange one is for droplet (wear a mask) and the green one is for contact (wear gloves and gown). We have many that have both of them on the door.
They should probably consider doing both.
I would wager that as the holidays approach, flu cases will rise sharply and most employees that come in contact with patients, me included will wear a mask whenever we're around them, regardless of their condition.
Yep. Certainly can't hurt.