If the masking/flu shot policy is truly about infection control, everyone should have worn a mask last year as the vaccine was considered to be only 23% effective. Therefore, anyone who was vaccinated was 77% likely to carry/spread/catch the virus and should have worn a mask to truly protect the vulnerable. It's more about selling more vaccine than anything else.
Nonayo - 9 years ago
Logic and science should apply here, not corporate interests... Studies have not shown vaccinating staff to be efficient to prevent flu in patients. Look up the Cochrane Collaboration reviews on the subject. Sick workers should wear masks, regardless of vaccine status, since the vaccinated can and do also get sick. Vaccines don't prevent transmission, sanitary measures do.
Cass - 9 years ago
They should be obligated to get the flu shot.
Maria - 9 years ago
Health care workers should not be publicly shamed for choosing to not get the flu shot. The flu shot has a very poor rate of efficiency, so why should they be forced to get something that has a poor record of actually working? By forcing them to wear a mask, they're being metaphorically flogged because everyone who sees them wearing the mask will know that they didn't get the flu shot and then will be shared of catching the flu from them. Meanwhile, workers who get the flu shot aren't required to wear a mask, yet many of them still end up getting the flu, so they can spread it to patients themselves.
If the masking/flu shot policy is truly about infection control, everyone should have worn a mask last year as the vaccine was considered to be only 23% effective. Therefore, anyone who was vaccinated was 77% likely to carry/spread/catch the virus and should have worn a mask to truly protect the vulnerable. It's more about selling more vaccine than anything else.
Logic and science should apply here, not corporate interests... Studies have not shown vaccinating staff to be efficient to prevent flu in patients. Look up the Cochrane Collaboration reviews on the subject. Sick workers should wear masks, regardless of vaccine status, since the vaccinated can and do also get sick. Vaccines don't prevent transmission, sanitary measures do.
They should be obligated to get the flu shot.
Health care workers should not be publicly shamed for choosing to not get the flu shot. The flu shot has a very poor rate of efficiency, so why should they be forced to get something that has a poor record of actually working? By forcing them to wear a mask, they're being metaphorically flogged because everyone who sees them wearing the mask will know that they didn't get the flu shot and then will be shared of catching the flu from them. Meanwhile, workers who get the flu shot aren't required to wear a mask, yet many of them still end up getting the flu, so they can spread it to patients themselves.