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Guv suspends mandated flu shots for health workers
Photo credit: AP File | H1N1 vaccine (Oct. 15, 2009)
Citing shortages of flu vaccine, Gov. David A. Paterson has announced that the state Health Department was suspending a controversial mandate that all health care workers get vaccinated or lose their jobs.
"We need to be as resourceful as we can with the limited supplies of vaccine currently coming into the state," Paterson said in a statement released late Thursday. He said the federal Centers...
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