1. Flu vaccination: an opt-out system for healthcare workers
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Noah C V Blackmore
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medicine.medical_specialty ,030504 nursing ,business.industry ,MEDLINE ,Outbreak ,General Medicine ,Herd immunity ,Opt-out ,Vaccination ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Family medicine ,Health care ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,0305 other medical science ,business - Abstract
McCartney makes a valid point about the questionable effectiveness of the flu vaccine, but she provides little substantive evidence of the negative effects of vaccination.1 She quotes the 2016-17 effectiveness of 41% in adults under 65, which would have been sufficient to provide herd immunity in many recent influenza outbreaks …
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- 2018
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