Letter to the editor: Vaccinating healthcare workers: evidence and ethics

Letter to the editor: vaccinating healthcare workers: evidence and ethics.

To the editor: In a recent issue of Eurosurveillance, Betsch argued that vaccination of healthcare workers (HCWs) will prevent transmission of pathogens from HCWs to patients and that HCW vaccination should be encouraged by correcting skewed impressions of risk and by an appeal to altruistic or ‘pro-social’ motivation [1]. Using hepatitis B and influenza vaccines as examples, Betsch noted there...

Author's reply: vaccinating healthcare workers: ethics and strategic behaviour.

In the debate about vaccinating healthcare workers (HCWs) against influenza, the ethical argument stresses HCWs' social responsibility to be vaccinated against influenza to protect their patients. In his letter to the editor, Heath Kelly [1] highlights that this argument may be over-used, given that Cochrane reviews show that there is insufficient evidence that influenza vaccination in HCWs pro...

Letter to the editor

Letter to the editor

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Letter to the Editor

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