Less than half of US hospitals require flu shots for staff, despite risk to patients

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 14:49 in Health & Medicine

Within weeks, flu will start spreading. Multiple national recommendations urge all healthcare workers to get the influenza vaccination, to reduce the chances they will pass the virus on to their patients. But a new study finds that more than half of hospitals still don't require this.

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