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SpinDoc Greg Poland's "Requiring inﬂuenza vaccination for health care workers: seven truths... by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Poland's 2005 paper is one of those designed to pay the way to mandatory influenza vaccinations. Back in 2005 Poland did not dare to ask for healthcare worker (HCW) firing ... Read on »

Flu Vaccine Pusher Greg Poland says "Anything Goes" by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine One person has been instrumental in creating flu vaccine mandates in the US, and he continues to push them overseas as well: Mayo's Greg Poland, MD. Poland is a scound ... Read on »

Call to Action to vaccinate HCWs (via National Foundation for Infectious Diseases)paid for by... by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Call to action: Inﬂuenza immunization among health care personnel. Bethesda, MD, 2008. Sponsored by Sanofi. * In the con ... Read on »

What, in Fact, Is the Evidence That Vaccinating Healthcare Workers against Seasonal Influenza... by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Yet another just-published literature review, this time from Israel, finds mandatory healthcare worker flu vaccinations unsupported by the literature. Int J Family M ... Read on »

Flu Vaccine Mandates and Talking Points funded by Pharma, naturally by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I did not have to look far to find the source of that meaningless little factoid used by the Goshen hospital spokesperson and the British Columbia chief medical officer: ... Read on »

No they don't write it themselves: No-Nothing Vaccinator #3 by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine No, the vaccinators don't write their talking points themselves. They get them from the same playbook. The spokeswoman for Goshen Hospital, which just fired 8 employees, ... Read on »

Know-Nothing Flu Vaccinators: #2 by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Professor Ken Flegel, an editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, wrote an editorial last fall supporting mandatory flu shots for healthcare workers. I blogged ... Read on »

Flu Shots: Clearing the Air, Correcting the citations/ Vancouver Sun by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine British Columbia 's chief medical officer pushed mandatory flu shots for healthcare workers, then backed up the policy with specious claims, showing he had not a clue what t ... Read on »

British Columbia, Canada reversed itself on mandatory flu shots this season/ Globe and Mail by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Canada's first mandatory flu shot policy , announced in August 2012 for all healthcare workers, was reversed in early December, following an uproar by nurses and other h ... Read on »

Why force flu vaccinations if the evidence is so poor? by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Lancet investigated flu vaccine effects with the following two interesting studies: 1. Simonsen et al. showed that as rates of flu vaccination in the ... Read on »

Meta-analyses of flu vaccine effectiveness/ Cochrane Collaboration by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Cochrane Collaboration, the most respected organization of health professionals to evaluate the evidence behind medical therapies, studied flu vaccine of healthcare work ... Read on »

Workers fired, but where did the guidance to fire them come from? by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine What is up with firing workers who don't get vaccinated for flu? Indiana's Goshen Hospital just fired 8 workers for refusing the shots. Hospital spokeswoman Melanie M ... Read on »

Michael Osterholm on flu shots: "It's all a sales job; it's all public relations" / NY Times by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I missed this November article on flu shots from the NY Times blog . Yes, it repeats material I have covered before. But as healthcare workers continue to be fired from th ... Read on »

NYT and WaPo discuss medical-financial conflicts of interest by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Medicine has become so replete with financial conflicts of interest, it becomes very hard to sort out what the ethical standards are these days. Yesterday, the NY Times t ... Read on »

Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations/ Wired by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This piece and the one below need no introduction. The surveillance state is developing/installing its hardware at warp speed.--Meryl Transit authoritie ... Read on »

U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens--and share with other countries/ WSJ by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324478304578171623040640006.html?KEYWORDS=US+Terrorism+Agency+to+Tap+a+Vast+Database+of+Citizens--and+share+with+other+count ... Read on »

Mandatory Flu Shots for Healthcare Workers: Summary of the literature by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Very few countries offer seasonal flu vaccines to their general (not high risk) populations, let alone mandate them for groups of healthy people. With less institutional ... Read on »

Flu shots may interfere with broad immunity developed after natural infection / Vaccine by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine From a public health standpoint, a true pandemic flu--a la 1918--is what might cause really large mortality and morbidity. Seasonal flu causes a few hundred deaths in hea ... Read on »

Research doesn't support mandatory influenza vaccination / WMJ by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine From the Mayo Clinic and Wisconsin Medical Journal comes the following letter from Preventive Medicine specialist William Buchta, M.D., MPH While the intent of Aurora’s ma ... Read on »

Musing on issues of mandatory flu vaccinations by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Many healthcare institutions are imposing mandates on staff for flu vaccinations, with penalties ranging from wearing masks throughout the workday (even for those with n ... Read on »

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