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Health care unions want delay on vaccinations.
2003 FEB 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Citing safety concerns, America's two largest health care unions want a delay in smallpox vaccinations. But the Bush administration said it will move ahead as planned, with inoculations set to begin in late January.
The unions argued that there are not enough safeguards in place to make sure people at higher risk of injury are not vaccinated. And they complained there is nothing in place to adequately compensate people who are hurt by the vaccine.
"Health care workers across the country want to be prepared if a smallpox outbreak occurs," Andrew L. Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, which represents 750,000 health care workers, wrote President Bush.
"But it is wrong to ask them, their patients and their families to put their health at risk while you have been unwilling to make the plan as safe as possible."
Similar concerns were registered by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents 350,000 health care workers.
On January 17, 2003, the Institute of Medicine releases a report advising the administration on implementation of its plan. When they met in November month, several members of that panel, mostly academics from schools of medicine and public health, were also critical of the Bush plan, fearing it was being put in place too quickly.
Despite the critiques, the administration is ready to move ahead, said Jerry Hauer, assistant secretary for public health preparedness at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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