Advertisement

We need your help now

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.

You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.

If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.

Shutterstock/Emmy1622

Just one third of hospital nurses have had the flu jab despite raffles and free coffee incentives

The HSE ran a campaign over the last few months to encourage healthcare workers to get the vaccine.

UPTAKE OF THE flu vaccination among hospital workers has increased in recent months following a campaign launched by the HSE, but the rate for nurses remains low at just over 32%.

Back in October, Minister for Health Simon Harris had expressed concern at slow uptake -  just 31% of all hospital workers were immunised in 2016. The number for nursing staff in 2016 was even lower at 26.4%.

According to documents released to journalist Ken Foxe, Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan in September last year had told Harris that he was concerned about “the poor uptake of the vaccine in patient facing staff roles”.

He warned that staff who are not vaccinated represent a risk to patients as they can spread flu and when they become ill they will be absent from the workforce, often at a time when they are most needed.

“The rates among nurses are of most concern given that they are so low in comparison to others and given that in numerical terms they constitute the majority of health professionals in the care settings in question. I have particular concern about the lack of leadership from nursing unions as well as others in this area,” he said.

In 2016 the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) had asked members not to volunteer for the Peer Vaccination Programme due to concerns that nursing staff would be diverted away from normal duties to administer the jabs.

Following the Minister’s comments in October, however, the union said it had secured additional staffing resources to allow members to cooperate and it encouraged them to avail of the vaccination.

Incentives

Now the HSE has said uptake levels for staff are up since it launched its promotional campaign in October.

Dr John Duddihy, Director of Public Health South East told TheJournal.ie that the campaign included promotional materials like an information video and booklet for healthcare workers and education sessions held in hospitals and longterm care facilities.

More than 500 peer vaccinators were trained to facilitate increased numbers of those availing of the flu jab.

Cuddihy also said hospitals and community health organisations also offered incentives “such as entry to a raffle, free tea or coffee etc” to their healthcare workers to avail of the flu vaccine.

At the end of November, the uptake level for healthcare workers in hospitals was 37.9%. The rate for nurses remained low at 32.3%.

The uptake rate for workers in longterm care facilities was also up from 28.1% in the full previous flu season to 32.2% at the end of November. Again, the level for nurses was lower than the overall percentage healthcare workers at 30.8%.

Over 90% of residents in long stay facilities have received the vaccination.

The level among medical and dental staff is at 56%,while among health and social care professionals it is at 46%. The HSE anticipates the uptake rate will increase in the coming weeks and months.

“It is vital for healthcare workers to receive the flu vaccine because one can be infectious and transmit the flu for one day before showing symptoms. The flu vaccine is a lifesaver as it protects healthcare workers, their families and their vulnerable patients,” Cuddihy told TheJournal.ie.

The number of reported cases of influenza-like illness in Ireland has continued to increase in recent weeks and the HSE has continued to encourage high-risk groups to get vaccinated.

Flu is expected to increase and to circulate for at least the next four to six weeks. Anyone who gets flu is advised to stay at home, rest, drink plenty of fluids and use over-the-counter remedies like paracetamol to ease symptoms.

Anyone in high-risk categories should contact their GP if they develop symptoms.

Read: Children with flu symptoms urged to stay home from school as virus strain hits young hardest>

Read: ‘Chaos is the reality of our health services’: Doctors say a trolley crisis is only ever hours away>

Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone...
A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation.

Close
60 Comments
This is YOUR comments community. Stay civil, stay constructive, stay on topic. Please familiarise yourself with our comments policy here before taking part.
Leave a Comment
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute worldpeace
    Favourite worldpeace
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 6:47 AM

    In California, it is required for all hosp workers. They put stickers in our badge. For people that refuse for medical or other reasons they are required to use mask anytime they have patient contact from November until March.

    157
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Nick Allen
    Favourite Nick Allen
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:57 AM

    @worldpeace:

    Proper order

    44
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
    Favourite Fiona Fitzgerald
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 1:59 PM

    @Nick Allen: Out of curiosity, have you had the flu jab yourself?

    9
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute The Guru
    Favourite The Guru
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 6:20 AM

    Ridiculous. The whole system is broken. If patient care was the priority for everyone all hospital workers would get the jab. Instead you have layers upon layers of unions, management groups, committees etc all with vested interests vying for power and working against eachother.

    167
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Tom Tom
    Favourite Tom Tom
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:31 AM

    @The Guru: it’s probably more likely because they are stretched so thin at work that they can’t afford for people to go off to the clinics to get the jabs. Most nurses I know would happily have the jab.

    44
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute EvieXVI
    Favourite EvieXVI
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:35 AM

    @The Guru: what’s ridiculous is that nurses are taking up the offer of getting the vaccine – it’s free, there’s an incentive. What does layers of management have to do with it?

    24
    See 4 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Nick Allen
    Favourite Nick Allen
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:56 AM

    @Tom Tom:

    That’s probably complete BS Tom

    8
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute David Murphey
    Favourite David Murphey
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:21 AM

    @Tom Tom: nonsense. All care staff are given time off to get the flu jab. It takes less than five minutes.

    People do not get the jab for a number of reasons:

    1. They don’t really care about the people for whom they are caring;
    2. many nurses think they know everything: “I won’t put a virus in my body”. (I kid you not);
    3. They are too lazy;
    4. Some expect to paid extra for getting the flu jab (again, I kid you not);
    5. “Well I got the flu jab last year and then got the flu”. You did not, you got a bad cold.
    6. “well, the flu jab doesn’t protect you against every strain of flu.” Of course not, but it will protect you and your patients and colleagues against the most common strains, so get it anyway.

    In some Australian hospitals, the uptake is up to 99%, because the staff are told it is a condition of their employment. No arguments, no discussion.

    40
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Tom Tom
    Favourite Tom Tom
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 9:13 AM

    @Nick Allen: As a doctor with 16 years under my belt, most nurses I know would be in favour of the jab. It’s not BS to say that. If you’re referring to the first half of my comment then fine but corroborate that assertion. My recollection of these flu clinics when I was in hospital jobs was that we were frequently ridiculously busy and it wasn’t always possible to use the time set aside for clinics to get there due to wards bursting at the seams . I always had my jab (and still do) but that’s because I wanted to keep myself well enough to be able to work – although there’s been the odd year where I’ve inadvertently missed it (not intentional).

    15
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Sara cahill
    Favourite Sara cahill
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 3:19 PM

    @David Murphey:

    1. NOT all care staff are given time off to have the vaccine. In the ICU where I work nurses are working at very unsafe levels of staffing. Leaving the unit for any reason, including vaccines, is simply not feasible.
    2. Nobody knows everything. A lot of nurses are very expert in their fields however. Your comment is ignorant and uneducated.
    3. Nurses are anything but lazy. And try care very much about their patients, often are expense of their own families.
    I am a doctor in anaesthesia and critical care medicine and have the highest respect for the nurses that I am fortunate to work with, every one of whom has saved lives over the course of their careers.

    15
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Lorraine O' Donnell
    Favourite Lorraine O' Donnell
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 6:55 AM

    This should highlight one thing, the approach to administration of the flu vaccine in busy hospitals needs to be different.

    I intended in receiving the vaccine however when you are so short staffed and “lunch breaks” do not happen, it is very unlikely one can leave their work area for this.

    Flu vaccine administrators should come to each department. It’s a portable box. That way staff who are already overstretched don’t have to walk a mile to receive it.

    102
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Tom Tom
    Favourite Tom Tom
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:32 AM

    @Lorraine O’ Donnell: Ah, but that would be a sensible approach. This is the HSE we’re talking about

    38
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Sara McSweeney
    Favourite Sara McSweeney
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:09 AM

    @Lorraine O’ Donnell: couldn’t nurses go to a pharmacy and get it on their day off. That’s what plenty of people do. I was hospitalized with flu a few years ago and I will never miss the flu jab since then.

    37
    See 3 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute David Murphey
    Favourite David Murphey
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:24 AM

    @Sara McSweeney: what? Do it on my day off? are you mad?!!!!!!!!!

    10
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute worldpeace
    Favourite worldpeace
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:54 AM

    @Lorraine O’ Donnell: makes a big difference indeed. Where I work they have assigned different nursing supervisors in each station on top of employee health unit we can walk to. And everyday there’s 1 that goes around the hospital ask

    2
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute worldpeace
    Favourite worldpeace
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:58 AM

    @worldpeace: asking employees. It is up to the employer how important compliance is to them.

    3
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute john Appleseed
    Favourite john Appleseed
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 6:17 AM

    How about stay at home on unpaid leave or getting the fricking vaccine? They’ve no right spreading germs amongst the vulnerable.

    103
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute John Campbell
    Favourite John Campbell
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:31 AM

    @Father Spodo Komodo: there’s widespread availability of the flu jab and it takes a few seconds to administer. Should be compulsory for all health workers.

    64
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute David Edwards
    Favourite David Edwards
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 10:54 AM

    @John Campbell: how long do you think it takes to pee? I’m lucky as my hospital has a very slick set up but with queuing, consenting etc but you’re still 20/30 minutes away from work. And not forgetting the staff running the scheme have put their jobs on hold.

    3
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Jennie Conneely
    Favourite Jennie Conneely
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 6:27 AM

    I don’t see why they need persuading. It’s free to them. They work with the vulnerable and it prevents them being ill when there’s an outbreak. It’s win win win

    74
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
    Favourite Fiona Fitzgerald
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 2:05 PM

    @Jennie Conneely: I agree, in theory, except that being well-rested is probably more their priority. Also, I only know two nurses and a midwife and they sometimes give blood, in the hospital. You can’t donate blood for a fortnight after the flu jab, so that could be a consideration. Minor, but possible.

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Jennie Conneely
    Favourite Jennie Conneely
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 2:37 PM

    @Fiona Fitzgerald: I would be very unhappy knowing a midwife had not been vaccinated. They are dealing with newborns and premiture babies. The most vulnerable of society. How dare they take a chance in that situation. Get the flu shot after your blood donation then. There are no excuses

    2
    See 1 more reply ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
    Favourite Fiona Fitzgerald
    Report
    Jan 10th 2018, 1:29 AM

    @Jennie Conneely: I agree. I know nobody who does take a chance. But the article above has figures showing that most nurses overall didn’t manage to get vaccinated this year. Why? Maybe they have concerns about being denied sick leave? I honestly don’t think that anyone feels valued or appreciated if they are being ordered dismissively to do anything. There are far better ways of improving the voluntary uptake.

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Neal Ireland Hello.
    Favourite Neal Ireland Hello.
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:52 AM

    Whay would be the point of taking a vaccine that’s apparently been almost completely ineffective this year?

    56
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Favourite Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:00 AM

    @Neal Ireland Hello.:
    Exactly my point!
    And then they are attempting to blame it on health care staff!

    36
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Malachi
    Favourite Malachi
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:14 AM

    @Neal Ireland Hello.: Low effectiveness is far, far better than 0% effectiveness, because viruses work spread a population level, individual effectiveness is misleading.

    http://uk.businessinsider.com/misunderstood-benefits-of-getting-a-flu-shot-2015-11?r=US&IR=T

    Spread of the virus throughout a population is drastically reduced even if the vaccine has low % effectiveness, it’s a probability game.

    19
    See 3 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Datuk Don
    Favourite Datuk Don
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:48 AM

    @Neal Ireland Hello.: it is effective, not 100% but its better than nothing.

    8
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Favourite Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:59 AM

    @Datuk Don: This year’s batch is completely ineffective!

    6
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute David Murphey
    Favourite David Murphey
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 9:07 AM

    @Fionnuala DiFreyne: ineffective against some strains. Fully effective against most common strains.

    4
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Róisín Lawless
    Favourite Róisín Lawless
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 6:41 AM

    Surely all the %’s are low. Why are you singling out nurses? Following the Minister like a good pet?

    65
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Kieran Magennis
    Favourite Kieran Magennis
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 6:54 AM

    @Róisín Lawless: Sorry Roisin but that’s mad. Apart from their own health, nurses can spread their ‘flu to vulnerable people and, in extreme cases, this can kill. As someone who’s spend the past 2-3 weeks in a house where everyone except me got the virus I would strongly recommend EVERYONE to get the vaccination jab as soon as it comes out every year in October/November?. By the way, I didn’t get the jab because I’m smart or public-spirited, just because I’m in one of those at-risk groups….

    46
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Tom Tom
    Favourite Tom Tom
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 9:19 AM

    @Kieran Magennis: Of course if they actually had flu, they wouldn’t be well enough to get out of bed never mind attend work… so they’d be unlikely to spread it. What most people call flu isn’t really influenza.

    23
    See 2 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Malachi
    Favourite Malachi
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 10:33 AM

    @Tom Tom: Surely they could spread it when contagious but asymptomatic, no? You can be contagious a day before symptoms arise and something like a week after they subside, so why couldn’t they spread it during that time frame?

    5
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Tom Tom
    Favourite Tom Tom
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 2:16 PM

    @Malachi: Fair point

    4
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Patabake Kennedy
    Favourite Patabake Kennedy
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:34 AM

    What do the nurses know, that we don’t. I had that anti flu jab once, about out eight years ago, and I never felt as bad in my life afterwards. Might work for some, hope it does, but as I did not have the flu in about thirty years anyway, I think i’ll take my chances.

    38
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute William Grogan
    Favourite William Grogan
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:55 AM

    @Patabake Kennedy: BS! The vaccine can’t have that effect.

    10
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Patabake Kennedy
    Favourite Patabake Kennedy
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 9:46 AM

    @William Grogan: Thalidomide my friend, Thalidomide.

    15
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Lorraine Mernagh
    Favourite Lorraine Mernagh
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:10 AM

    My husband is a nurse in a and e dept, had flu vaccine for strain a , off sick now with flu strain b, so flu vaccine only forty per cent effective!!!!

    45
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Datuk Don
    Favourite Datuk Don
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:47 AM

    @Lorraine Mernagh: good on him for getting the jab

    12
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Toon Army
    Favourite Toon Army
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:56 AM

    @Lorraine Mernagh: If you had the option between two lotto tickets, one with 40% chance of winning 1 million euro and one with 0% chance, which would you select?

    16
    See 1 more reply ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Favourite Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 10:12 AM

    @Toon Army:
    And exactly where do you get your statistics from?
    The exact people who are blaming this year’s ineffective vaccine on the healthcare workers who did not receive it?!
    Even if they had, it would have made no difference!

    6
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Favourite Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:13 AM

    Yes because a free coffee will be incentive enough to make nurses take an invalid vaccine.
    Clearly this year’s “batch” was a sham!

    60
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Tom Tom
    Favourite Tom Tom
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:33 AM

    @Fionnuala DiFreyne: How so?

    8
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Favourite Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:38 AM

    @Tom Tom:
    Because there is a flu epidemic right now within our health care system!
    Not being publicised within our media for obvious reasons but there you go!

    22
    See 8 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Malachi
    Favourite Malachi
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:07 AM

    @Fionnuala DiFreyne: Surely the ‘flu epidemic’ might have something to do with people not taking the vaccine… y’know, like this article is highlighting? How have you determined that it’s down to an ‘invalid’ (?) vaccine?

    17
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Favourite Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:20 AM

    @Malachi:
    No, actually they realise that this year’s “batch” of flu vaccination….which is always a guess, every single year is not working so who else can they blame?

    12
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Walt Jabsco
    Favourite Walt Jabsco
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:37 AM

    @Fionnuala DiFreyne:
    Reasoning fail

    9
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute David Murphey
    Favourite David Murphey
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:51 AM

    @Fionnuala DiFreyne: no vaccine will protect against everything. It makes sense to get the vaccine that protects staff and patients against the most common strains.

    9
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Favourite Fionnuala DiFreyne
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:58 AM

    @David Murphey:
    Not if the vaccine has been proven not to work!!

    Let me guess the next replies….where is your scientific evidence?
    Well, give me some scientific evidence to show that it does work?

    8
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Deirdre D'Arcy Murphy
    Favourite Deirdre D'Arcy Murphy
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 11:12 AM

    @Malachi: Wrong , I got the flu vaccine and now into my second week recovering from the flu and I can tell you, it certainly WAS the flu. So , no more ??????flu vaccines will I take ever again.

    8
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Malachi
    Favourite Malachi
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 6:27 PM

    @Deirdre D’Arcy Murphy: Where exactly did you see a 100% guarantee for no flu when getting the vaccine?

    It helps to know what it’s actually claiming to do before criticising it for not working.

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Tom Tom
    Favourite Tom Tom
    Report
    Jan 10th 2018, 11:54 AM

    @Deirdre D’Arcy Murphy: “The flu” is a misnomer. There are many flu viruses. You have clearly had one of them. The vaccine protects against the most virulent strains for a given year, but not all. The influenza virus strains are very adept at adapting themselves and mutating. The vaccine reduces your chances of getting flu, but not 100%. To say you won’t get the vaccine again is folly – you’re just increasing your chances of getting the flu in the future.

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Will Rymer
    Favourite Will Rymer
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 7:42 AM

    They should be offering the vaccine on the ward so they can’t dodge it. Cut their pay of they refuse

    25
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Maurice Price
    Favourite Maurice Price
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 11:15 AM

    1) Why is it nurses/healthcare professionals have to get it, why not roll it out to the whole population? Make it a mandatory requirement that everyone has it? I’m sure you’ll be seeing a change of viewpoint of many of the people here.

    2) I’m a nursing student, got the jab in October, still lost out a week of college/work with a dose of the influenza two weeks before Christmas, prior to that I had never gotten a flu jab and I had never to my knowledge had the influenza (having worked in healthcare for 10 years previous) Go figure why I won’t get it again.

    18
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Malachi
    Favourite Malachi
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 6:29 PM

    @Maurice Price: As a nursing student you probably shouldn’t stop getting the vaccine because you made a false association this year between the virus and the jab.

    You’re free to do what you like, obviously, but that’s a poor reason to stop vaccinating.

    4
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Bob
    Favourite Bob
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:40 AM
    14
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Frederick Higginbottom
    Favourite Frederick Higginbottom
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 1:48 PM

    The amount of vaccinations people are guilt-tripped into putting into their and their childrens bodies here is ridiculous. Babies in Ireland are given 14 different vaccinations before 1 years of age, with new ones added as recent as last year (Men B + Rotavirus). I’m not saying vaccinations are ineffective, but the sheer amount of them is worrying and I don’t think the medical and pharmaceutical industries should be exempt from questioning.

    16
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Datuk Don
    Favourite Datuk Don
    Report
    Jan 9th 2018, 8:46 AM

    that is totally irresponsible of the health professionals. It take 2 minutes to get the jab from the chemist. it shows a total lack of respect to the sick people in hospital. they would rather sit at home suffering from the flu than get the jab and work.

    13
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Yvonne McCague
    Favourite Yvonne McCague
    Report
    Jan 10th 2018, 12:52 PM

    Let’s get a few facts straight here:
    1. There are increasingly varied strains of flu virus flying around presently, and the current flu vaccine available in Ireland only covers 3 or 4 strains, excluding the Aussie strain hitting the Irish shores presently.
    2. Vaccination is only 40-60% effective – depending on 1) characteristics of the person being vaccinated (such as their age and health), and 2) the similarity or “match” between the flu viruses the flu vaccine (CDC, 2017)
    3. There is no evidence to suggest healthcare professionals actually spread the virus
    4. Despite the ‘poor uptake’, is there any statistics or evidence to suggest a high rate of healthcare professionals actually suffering from the flu virus?

    Healthcare professionals have the right to decide if they want to be vaccinated or not.

    6
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Peter Davis
    Favourite Peter Davis
    Report
    Jan 10th 2018, 7:39 AM

    As a nurse myself, it takes about 15 minutes, as you need to wait to see if you have a reaction to the shot, after that it’s back to work.
    I get it every year and understand that it reduces the likelihood of contracting the disease but does not prevent it entirely.
    But I do have many colleagues who refuse to get it, even though it’s free, and they continue to spout the usual nonsense despite the fact that those comments are continuously shown to be false, such as “it gives you the flu”.
    Hard to convince the general public to get the inoculation if the professional who should know better won’t do so.

    1
Submit a report
Please help us understand how this comment violates our community guidelines.
Thank you for the feedback
Your feedback has been sent to our team for review.

Leave a commentcancel

 
JournalTv
News in 60 seconds