"One major reason for pushing annual influenza vaccines is to maintain influenza vaccine manufacturing capacity. “
Now I know a major reason why they nag us every year, even when the vaccine is inefficacious and there is no flu around, like last year. To prop up an industry. The question is whether nagging will turn into coercion.
"One major reason for pushing annual influenza vaccines is to maintain influenza vaccine manufacturing capacity. “
Now I know a major reason why they nag us every year, even when the vaccine is inefficacious and there is no flu around, like last year. To prop up an industry. The question is whether nagging will turn into coercion.
The article does not take a position on what role smallpox vaccine played in eradication, but this important topic is outside of the scope of one article, which is intended to give some comparative understanding of the "safe and effective" shibboleth.
There is coercion for the flu shot. The CDC pressures hospitals to require every employee get a flu shot who has patient contact. I've heard there is a financial incentive involved and this was a provision of the ACA (obamacare). Before covid, there were nurses posting on YouTube every fall, saying they were quitting rather than take the mandatory flu jab.
The health insurance company, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, used to track doctors on certain metrics and post their scores on the physician search page of their website. I don't know if they still do this or not, but one of the metrics was the percentage of patients in certain age groups (older) who have gotten the flu shot. I went in for my annual flu shot exemption note (when I worked at hospital) and the doctor sent a nurse in to jab me without discussing it with me.
"One major reason for pushing annual influenza vaccines is to maintain influenza vaccine manufacturing capacity. “
Now I know a major reason why they nag us every year, even when the vaccine is inefficacious and there is no flu around, like last year. To prop up an industry. The question is whether nagging will turn into coercion.
The article does not take a position on what role smallpox vaccine played in eradication, but this important topic is outside of the scope of one article, which is intended to give some comparative understanding of the "safe and effective" shibboleth.
Very insightful.
There is coercion for the flu shot. The CDC pressures hospitals to require every employee get a flu shot who has patient contact. I've heard there is a financial incentive involved and this was a provision of the ACA (obamacare). Before covid, there were nurses posting on YouTube every fall, saying they were quitting rather than take the mandatory flu jab.
The health insurance company, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, used to track doctors on certain metrics and post their scores on the physician search page of their website. I don't know if they still do this or not, but one of the metrics was the percentage of patients in certain age groups (older) who have gotten the flu shot. I went in for my annual flu shot exemption note (when I worked at hospital) and the doctor sent a nurse in to jab me without discussing it with me.