The Times said the H1N1 shot would be free, although doctor's offices and clinics may charge an administrative fee. But the swine flu shots were in no way free. Tax payers paid vaccine makers a fortune as a result of the pig flu hoax. However, for the sake of non-argument, let's say the shot givers only charged $10 per infant to give each of the two swine flu vaccines. They would still make $80 million.
Will Health Care Workers Revolt?
The fact that health care workers have an aversion to flu vaccines is likely the best testament to the lack of benefits and potential harms associated with vaccines including the inability to sue for compensation if injured. It only stands to reason that if vaccines worked so great this group would be the first in line to get them.
But a new policy statement by the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics, in a paper in the October, 2010 issue of their official journal, "Pediatrics," gives notice of plan to force health care workers to get flu vaccines with the heading, "Recommendation for Mandatory Influenza Immunization of All Health Care Personnel."
The Academy claims that "despite the efforts of many organizations to improve influenza immunization rates with the use of voluntary campaigns, influenza coverage among health care personnel remains unacceptably low."
Mandatory influenza immunization for all health care personnel is "ethically justified, necessary and long overdue to ensure patient safety," the group said in a statement.
"The influenza vaccine is safe, effective, and cost-effective, so health care organizations must work to assuage common fears and misconceptions about the influenza virus and the vaccine," the Academy claims.
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