One of my kids just had some surgery. The nurses must have asked 10 times if he had the flu shot. When he said no, they asked if he wanted it. No.
My wife just noted tonight that she read that he’s not to get any vaccine without doctors permission and shouldn’t be with people who recently got flu shot, yet the hospital was all over getting him his flu shot.
the protocols at hospitals require the nursing staff to ask every patient every day whether they want the flu shot. I kid you not.
asking about flu/pneumonia shots is mandated....
Haven’t they determined that the efficacy of the Flu Shot is ~10%?
Hmm. The flu shot is made from killed virus; there is no way people can spread the flu by getting a shot. I'm guessing they didn't want recent vaccinees around him because it takes about 2 weeks to mount an immune response, and they could have been exposed to the flu during that time. I think that people can spread the flu before they have symptoms. So the only way to protect your son from nocosomial flu infection is to keep anyone who might have it or be exposed to it away from him.
While it would be beneficial for your son to have a flu shot, it would still take two weeks for his immune response to fully kick in, so the hospital would still have to take those precautions even if he had the shot on his first day there.