Your employer holds a meeting one day and informs all the employees that they will be required to receive a flu shot each year, per company policy, from here on out. Is this fair? What is the benefit to the patients? What is the benefit to you? Is this even legal? Do you have to get the shot? What if your religion doesn’t allow this to happen? These are all questions I will be addressing today. I will also be discussing my opinion and why I believe this shouldn’t be allowed. To start, I would like to point out exactly what influenza is and why it is dangerous. The official definition of influenza: An acute contagious viral infection, commonly occurring in epidemics or pandemics, and characterized by inflammation of the respiratory tract and by the sudden
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There are also allergies to consider. Anyone who is allergic to eggs cannot have this vaccine. There is one major problem with the influenza vaccine. It does not fight against all the strands of influenza. It has to be updated every year due the virus constantly mutating. According to the CDC, this year’s flu vaccine is not as effective because the current strain of the virus has already mutated. It was stated that 52% of the 85 influenza virus samples collected and analyzed from
October 1st through November 22nd were different from the virus strains included in this year’s vaccine, indicating a mutation or drift of the strain. The vaccine will still protect against the other strains included in it and will also lessen the severity of symptoms. Statistics show that in the 2012-2013 flu season 12,337 people were hospitalized due to flu-related illnesses, and 149 children died. 90% of those children were not vaccinated (Christensen, 2014). So, with all these studies and information, is it still right to make it mandatory for people to get this vaccine? I don’t believe it is. People should have the right to choose what goes into
There are also allergies to consider. Anyone who is allergic to eggs cannot have this vaccine. There is one major problem with the influenza vaccine. It does not fight against all the strands of influenza. It has to be updated every year due the virus constantly mutating. According to the CDC, this year’s flu vaccine is not as effective because the current strain of the virus has already mutated. It was stated that 52% of the 85 influenza virus samples collected and analyzed from
October 1st through November 22nd were different from the virus strains included in this year’s vaccine, indicating a mutation or drift of the strain. The vaccine will still protect against the other strains included in it and will also lessen the severity of symptoms. Statistics show that in the 2012-2013 flu season 12,337 people were hospitalized due to flu-related illnesses, and 149 children died. 90% of those children were not vaccinated (Christensen, 2014). So, with all these studies and information, is it still right to make it mandatory for people to get this vaccine? I don’t believe it is. People should have the right to choose what goes into