Healthcare Workers Approach to Influenza Vaccine
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Strategies to address poor influenza vaccine compliance in healthcare workers.
Sir Influenza vaccines are safe and have the potential to prevent significant morbidity and mortality 1 . Healthcare Workers (HCWs) are at increased risk of influenza infection 2 . There are many reports of influenza outbreaks where unvaccinated HCWs have infected patients and facilitated onward spread of infection 3,4 . Vaccinating HCWs reduces influenza-related morbidity and mortality in vacc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Contemporary Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2667-7180
DOI: 10.16899/jcm.675013