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Mandatory flu vaccination splits workers
Quick ReadState health care workers upset over state decree forcing them to get flu shots.
Photo credit: William Perlman | North Shore University Medical Center's chief of infectious diseases Dr. Bruce Farber says he will get vaccinated against swine flu. (Sept. 25, 2009)
Will you get the H1N1 vaccine when available?
Despite a planned rally in Albany Tuesday to protest a state regulation requiring health care workers be vaccinated against influenza — both seasonal and swine flu — New York’s top public health official predicts dissenters will ultimately extinguish their anger and roll up their sleeves.
The regulation, which was approved in August, comes with a stinging addendum: Get vaccinated or get fired.
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