Illinois:

Quality Quest is tracking the percentage of employees vaccinated for the seasonal flu at area hospitals from October 2010 through February 2011. This report reflects the percentage of hospital employees who have been vaccinated for the seasonal flu as of December 31, 2010.  Flu vaccinations in this region are currently voluntary.  The goal is for all employees to be immunized before the end of the 2010/2011 flu season, unless they have a medical or religious reason not to participate.  Updated reports will continue into March.

According to bioethicist Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, "If you can get close to 100 percent vaccination rates among health care workers, you can cut patient death rates from flu by 40 percent."

http://www.pjstar.com/opinion/spotlight/x1463449564/In-the-Spotlight-More-health-care-workers-receiving-flu-vaccine

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(I was tempted to place the above in levity thread)......


Am not from med field and certainly don't know squat, yet had to fight the urge to respond out loud with a teenage version of Really?

being skeptical,I wish to see some proof for that bold statement.(esp when efficacy rates for flu vax aren't always so swooft...haha, yes it's a word..at least in my world.