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Health care workers protest flu-vaccination order

Quick ReadHealth care providers gathered on the lawn of Suffolk County’s Health Department in a second day of protests against the state’s mandatory flu-vaccination order.

Oct. 10, 2009: Demonstrators in Hauppauge protest the

Photo credit: Photo by Ed Betz | Oct. 10, 2009: Demonstrators in Hauppauge protest the swine-flu vaccination order for health care workers.

Health care providers from throughout Long Island gathered on the lawn of Suffolk County’s Health Department Saturday in a second day of protests against the state’s mandatory flu-vaccination order.

Carrying picket signs in Hauppauge, the group numbering about 60 quietly talked among themselves as passing drivers honked in support. Protesters, who were from a number of medical facilities held...

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