What, in Fact, Is the Evidence That Vaccinating Healthcare Workers against Seasonal Influenza Protects Their Patients? A Critical Review

by Zvi Howard Abramson
US National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Abstract

Background and Methods. Vaccination of all healthcare workers is widely recommended by health authorities and medical institutions and support for mandatory vaccination is increasing. This paper presents the relevant literature and examines the evidence for patient benefit from healthcare worker vaccination. Articles identified by Medline […]

Veteran Nurses Not Buying Vaccine Myths

by Barbara Loe Fisher
National Vaccine Information Center 
Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot.

Defending […]

Studies Find Flu Shots Can Harm Your Heart, Infant And Fetus

by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com

Flu vaccines, according to the best scientific evidence available today, will only work against 10% of the circulating viruses that cause the symptoms of seasonal epidemic influenza. Additionally, flu vaccines have been found to elicit inflammatory reactions that may harm the human heart, the developing fetus, and the fragile immune systems of […]

Flu “Epidemic”: The Numbers Just Don’t Add Up

by Alliance for Natural Health

Should the government be recommending mercury-containing flu shots to everyone, especially if they are useless for 97.5% of adults?

One prominent media outlet says, “Influenza has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with 7.3 percent of deaths last week caused by pneumonia and the flu,” according to the CDC. Another’s report, […]

Are Mandatory Flu Vaccines for Healthcare Workers part of Obamacare and Linked to Financial Reimbursement to Healthcare Facilities?

Health Impact News
In the closing months of 2012, and here at the beginning of 2013, we are seeing many reports of healthcare workers losing their jobs for refusing to comply with mandatory flu vaccinations. Health Impact News has covered many of these stories:
TriHealth fires 150 employees in Cincinnati for not getting flu shots

Mandated Flu […]

More Nurses Refuse Flu Vaccine and Lose Their Jobs – Will only pro-vaccine people soon work at hospitals?

Health Impact News Editor Comments: I applaud these nurses who stood up for their beliefs, and in some cases their faith in God and what they felt God was leading them to do, even though it cost them their jobs. If we are going to STOP the medical system’s take over of all our […]

FDA Approves Neurotoxic Flu Drug For Infants Less Than One

by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com

Whereas the flu is self-limiting, the FDA’s capacity for bad decisions is not…

The recent decision by the FDA to approve the use of the antiviral drug Tamiflu for treating influenza in infants as young as two weeks old, belies an underlying trajectory within our regulatory agencies towards sheer insanity.

Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, has already drawn international […]

Mandated Flu Shots for Health Workers Wrong Says Physicians and Surgeons Group

by Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
PRNewswire-USNewswire

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Health workers nationwide are facing an ultimatum to either receive an influenza vaccination, or be fired. TriHealth, for example, one of Cincinnati’s largest employers, recently threatened to fire 150 workers if they did not get the vaccine, or a religious or medical exemption, by Dec 3.

The […]

Georgia Elementary Students “Accidentally” Get Flu Vaccine Twice

Andrew Reeser reports how 383 elementary students received two doses of the flu vaccine.

TriHealth fires 150 employees in Cincinnati for not getting flu shots

One of Cincinnati’s largest employers fired approximately 150 employees for failing to get a required flu shot.

TriHealth offered all of its 10,800 employees free flu shots. Employees had a month to get the flu shot. The deadline was Nov. 16. Employees who did not get the shot were terminated Wednesday, a company spokesperson said.

Employees […]