I learned this morning of the death of Katherine McQuestion, a 26 year-old health care worker who was forced to get the flu shot as a condition of her hospital employment. The study reported in this article indicates 1/3 of nurses are leaving their jobs within the first 2 years after graduation, citing lack of faith in vaccines, and objection to forced vaccination of themselves and of infants. We already have a nursing shortage. The vaccine mandates are having a serious impact on the worsening of that situation. Now we are also hearing that states are mandating flu vaccination on foster parents as a condition of taking in infants and children who desperately need loving families. Do we really have that many good foster families that we can afford to lose 1/3 of them, too? Mandating a vaccine that has such a poor record of efficacy, and which carries significant risk of injury is unconscionable.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:27:37 +0000