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Ladies at some US hospitals are fighting back against new mandate that they have to get a flu shot.
Where they can get fired Dr.
Manny Alvarez managing -- -- dot com and documented hundreds with more.
On this so hey get your flu shot your -- vaccinated will get terminated lately and I think look.
I'm all for you.
-- civil rights and the whole thing I get the whole in the hope that to be a -- is that.
In in health care systems.
There's certain regulations that we have to follow now we -- Doctors and nurses and everybody else to make sure they have hepatitis vaccine that they get that to make it tuberculosis test.
Now we do this because we had treating patients every day -- between contact and people coming to the hospital -- -- -- and -- you -- see another.
Patient with -- another problem and many times we can become bad actors of disease.
So when you know when you have these men and every you would go to the same thing we tell all the employees please get your flu vaccine.
You know we have flu outbreaks in different communities in our country people come through emergency room so.
You between these patients you -- getting exposed.
And what happens is you know the the compliance is very poor may be 40% 50%.
So these hospital administrators -- of their problems to look we can't afford to have people become factors we cannot afford for our own employees to become sick.
This is part of the greater picture of health care.
And I'm for a I am literally for it because it falls into the same thing as credentialing.
And proper training and having.
You know medical education and uniforms and -- name -- we are an industry that is more the fact -- are really nature why didn't more these hospitals or other organizations do this earlier this ought to -- because you don't we -- we wrote a story -- I wrote the story yesterday and Fox News health dot com and you know.
We got over 280.
Commons -- and of course -- -- screaming at me because the thing that I'm you know.
One ever.
I and look I'm all for liberties I get that but when you walk into the hospital.
-- value acting in in conjunction with many other parts of the system and we cannot think of ourselves as individuals.
Health care is about eighteen sport.
And therefore everybody has to do that greater good and getting vaccinated I think it's important.
Now there are prohibitions in and in these hospitals you can -- for religious reasons and many other factors we get that.
But you know the big picture has to be that health care professionals should have the standards that we all agree are good for the better of the page.
It's interest parents if anybody's worried a lot of semi of common cause obviously -- dot com read -- -- article or leave it hadn't yet read those comments are simply flowers review.
If you wanna take a shot -- I could use some -- quick -- I think we're we're we -- --
