Refusing the Employer Flu Shot

Employment Forced Flu Vaccinations

This is happening more and more. For the safety of patients or coworkers employers are being highly suggestive or enforcing flu vaccinations for employment in many states. There may be an easy way to decline the Flu Shot.

Mandatory flu shots for healthcare workers is becoming more common. In fact the APHA has published information about mandatory influenza vaccine for healthcare workers pros and cons. PubMed has a bit of articles regarding mandatory influenza immunization for healthcare workers — an ethical discussion.

Refusing the Employer Flu Shot

For your protection, motives or freedom of choice, I am providing a factual document to use in response if your employer presents you with forms for declining to be vaccinated for the flu or Influenza virus.

Please feel free to download the DIV Addendum or Declination of Influenza Vaccination -DIV Addendum and use as needed to help with the conditions of your employment.

Declination of Influenza Vaccination

do NOT agree to the following fraudulent statements as contained in the DIV form. These statements are based on the forms provided by the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC)^[1]. IAC is funded by pharmaceutical companies, including those who make and profit from influenza vaccines^[2]. Because of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, vaccine makers are not financially liable for injury or death due to flu (and other) vaccines, nor are those who administer them^[3]. Additionally, Justices Sotomayor and Ginsberg dissented a 2011 Supreme Court decision that protected vaccine makers from liability even from flawed vaccine design, and they warned this created a “regulatory vacuum in which no one ensures that vaccine manufacturers adequately take account of scientific and technological advancements when designing or distributing their products.”^[4] The statements in the DIV are not based on the actual capabilities of influenza vaccines and are intended to coerce and intimidate employees into vaccination. As evidenced below, in some instances, vaccinated employees may pose an increased risk of spreading influenza and other influenza-like-infections to patients.

^[1] http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4068.pdf

^[2] http://www.immunize.org/aboutus/corporate-membership.asp

^[3] https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html

^[4] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/09-152.ZD.html

Please feel free to download the DIV Addendum or Declination of Influenza Vaccination -DIV Addendum and use as needed to help with the conditions of your employment.