It’s the flu season that simply won’t go away. Many people are questioning how hospital workers, such as nurses, are surviving. One New Jersey hospital claims that the more flu shots you get, the better off you are.
Doctor Alfred Sacchetti is Chief of Emergency Services at Our Lady of Lourdes in Camden. He claims that his nurses are better protected because they’ve had more flu shots due to mandatory flu vaccination policies. Our Lady of Lourdes started forcing vaccinations back in 2014 and now the hospital is attempting to credit the strict policy for lower staff flu occurrences.
“I would say on any given day the staff has probably been sneezed on, coughed on, a snuggly runny nose kid has kissed them at least a dozen times,” says Sacchetti, per ABC6 out of Philadelphia.
“So when a really novel one comes in, your immune system can go back and say gee I remember three years ago, four years ago I saw something similar to that and can mount an antibody response so they don’t get the flu,” Sacchetti says.
Although Sacchetti mentions hygienic activities such as hand washing, he mainly focuses on mandatory flu shots as the core component of health amongst the hospital’s workers. The justification to tread all over working America’s rights continues onward and upward.
