State official defends flu shot policy for health workers
Photo credit: Getty Images | Doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine sit in a basket at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Rush is one of many hospitals and clinics that have this week started to distribute the vaccinations against the H1N1 swine flu virus in the United States. (Oct. 6, 2009)
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Amid a chorus of protests from nurses, a state Health Department official Tuesday defended the state's decision to mandate flu vaccines for health care workers because too few had voluntarily gotten the shot in the past.
Dr. Guthrie Birkhead, deputy commissioner in the state Department of Health, told the heads of four Assembly committees at a packed Assembly hearing room in Manhattan that...
