{"id":285,"date":"2011-12-11T16:27:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2011-12-11T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T16:27:03","slug":"should-the-seasonal-flu-shot-be-mandatory-for-health-care-workers-and-those-identified-as-holding-key-positions-with-an-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/should-the-seasonal-flu-shot-be-mandatory-for-health-care-workers-and-those-identified-as-holding-key-positions-with-an-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the seasonal flu shot be mandatory for health care workers and those identified as holding key positions with an organization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The facts are hard to deny regarding the benefits of receiving the seasonal flu shot, and the reasonable arguments against it are few. If Emergency Management is trying to mitigate impacts to the community from identified hazards, is this a worthwhile cause?<\/p>\n<p>If health care (hospital and pre-hospital) personnel are supposed to first &#8220;do no further harm&#8221; why not eliminate the potential for being a vector for influenza?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The facts are hard to deny regarding the benefits of receiving the seasonal flu shot, and the reasonable arguments against it are few. If Emergency Management is trying to mitigate  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[11,36,38,49,80,81,84,108],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-best-practices","tag-emergency-management","tag-ems","tag-hospitals","tag-pre-hospital-care","tag-preparedness","tag-public-safety","tag-vaccinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}