Rates of influenza vaccination among health care workers stay low
Recovery from drop during pandemic continues slow pace, OHA data show
PORTLAND, Ore.—Oregon continues to see low influenza vaccination rates among health care personnel following significant drops during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new Oregon Health Authority data.
The Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination Dashboard, published by OHA’s Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Program, shows that 61% of the state’s health care workers from all facility types were vaccinated among those eligible during the 2023-2024 flu season. This is slightly lower than the 2022-2023 flu season rate of 63% -- and concerning for state officials trying to prevent the virus’s spread to people most at risk of severe illness and death.
The influenza vaccination rate among eligible health care workers had dropped 24% between the 2019-2020 and 2023-2024 influenza seasons – from 85% to 61% -- and marks the fourth consecutive year of decreasing influenza vaccination rates among health care personnel.
“Health care worker influenza vaccination rates remain low and have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Flu activity is returning to pre-pandemic levels, but we have not seen the same for health care worker influenza vaccination rates,” said Dat Tran, M.D., the HAI Program’s medical director. “It is important that we focus on increasing flu vaccination rates for this critical, frontline workforce.”
OHA requires annual reporting of health care worker influenza vaccination data from four facility types – ambulatory surgery centers, dialysis centers, hospitals (including inpatient psychiatric facilities) and nursing facilities.
Data are self-reported by facilities and includes aggregate counts of health care workers, grouped by health care worker category; who received an influenza vaccination; who declined; who had a medical contraindication; or who had an unknown vaccine status. The Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination Dashboard displays influenza vaccination data filterable by facility type, county, and worker classification. Trends by flu season and facility-specific data are also shown.
According to the 2023-2024 dashboard, ambulatory surgery centers reported the highest flu vaccination levels among workers, with rates at 67%, followed by hospitals at 66%, nursing facilities at 37%, dialysis centers at 45% and inpatient psychiatric facilities the lowest at 24%. Dialysis centers were the only facility type that saw an increase from the 2022-2023 rates, but they were still below the rates for prior flu seasons.
The percentage of eligible health care workers who declined vaccination has increased over the years, reaching 18% for the 2023-2024 flu season, which is up from 15% for the 2022-2023 season. Additionally, a high proportion of health care workers reported having an unknown vaccination status (21%), which may contribute to low vaccination rates – and illustrates the need for improvement in facility-level documentation of vaccination status.
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services developed Healthy People 2020 with 10-year objectives for improving the health of all Americans, including showing progress toward a 90% influenza vaccination coverage goal for the health care workforce. However, Healthy People 2030 does not include a goal focused on increasing flu vaccinations among health care workers, so Oregon is continuing to use the Healthy People 2020 health worker vaccination goal as a way of directing public health action and showing where more support and education is needed.
To achieve 90% vaccination coverage, Dr. Tran said there are important steps health care facilities can take. Public health recommendations include encouraging health care workers, including those not employed by the facility—such as contractors and volunteers—to get vaccinated at the beginning of every influenza season. Facilities can also host promotional activities, such as holding mass vaccination fairs, providing vaccines at no cost to employees, starting incentive programs, and documenting all health care workers’ vaccination status and requiring a declination form for health care workers who forgo vaccination.
“We know our state’s health care workers want to protect their patients and prevent a potentially catastrophic outbreak of influenza, which can be deadly for vulnerable people, such as older adults and those with chronic conditions or who are immunocompromised,” Dr. Tran said. “We need health care workers to step up and get vaccinated.”
OHA has developed a toolkit for health care employers and workers to help them improve employee flu vaccinations rates at their facilities to protect patients, themselves and their families.
My hospital REQUIRES flu vax. I could try for a religious exemption like I got for the covid shot, but I haven't come up with a good religious justification besides "God hates stupid stuff".
Jon, you should try. My sister has worked for a hospital for years and decided she had enough of the flu vaccine. She filed for a religious exemption and it was accepted. You don’t need any deep biblical justification, just be honest how it’s your personal conviction that caring for your body means not getting the flu vaccine. Good luck.
“For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
Leviticus 17:14
Aborted fetal cells used in some vaccine production-morally you can oppose the entire industries practices as unethical
Oh my gosh, I am SO sick after reading this! I can't even believe how terrible these people are!!!! On the website you provided is awful: "The COVID-19 vaccine (J&J/Janssen) is made using fetal retinal cells." 🤬😡🤬
Wow! I didn’t know that about the J&J. Interesting because my sister drank the kool aid and got the J&J shot and she is now suffering with Serous chorio retinopathy!! She doesn’t fit the typical individuals who get this…her doctor is totally stumped!!! 🤔
We have seen retinal occlusions on our pregnant women as well. And, my husband’s barber had a retina emergency last month had to cancel the appointment.
Thank you so much for posting this!! Unfortunately, my sister drank the kool aid & got the J&J shot. She is now suffering with serous chorio retinopathy!! I have come across many retinal issues over the past few years. Retinal occlusion; detached retina 👁️ etc…
Jon, I'll send info this weekend if that's not too late. I was very organized about 2 yrs ago, but I've not looked at the info since. I captureed a lot to learn, then used that to craft my accomdation request. After that, I sent info to others like I'll send you. I'm hoping that is easy to find and just forward. I'll know soon enough.
If you need some info today or tomorrow, reply here to let me know. I'll get some info quickly that will get you started.
For the curious, my strategy started with info from attorney Robert Barnes via his locals subscriber website. He explained the law, provided sample letters, advised on how to determine what you needed to customize so it was YOUR letter despite starting from a template, and he discussed how to respond to different corporate reactions up to and including refusal. His insights into how to influence the company to follow the law were very interesting and worked for some people. I didn't have any issues, so my good fortune allowed me to easily get the approval. Be I was quite ready to and capable of filing in court to avoid being fired. Might have worked if necessary, might not. But I had solid basis for hope, which was very important at that time.
If only id have had the courage at that time to mention all this to my daughter... She wanted to go to concerts and is a med school student, so she took the initial jabs. Fortunately, she seems to be fine and has since noted I have the data and strategy if another mandate occurs.
And telling her repeatedly to avoid all mRNA injections has helped the conversations on bad medicine bc it's not blaming the hot button of the specific COVID jabs.
Try focusing on mRNA platform dangers and the radar for other bad medicine will likely start picking up more and more
The good Lord didn’t make vaccines, they aren’t natural, and there is a real risk if you take one. Does the benefit outweigh the risk? You said yourself that they aren’t effective, so it’s all risk and no benefit. Please try for the exemption!
Research if flu vax uses attenuated viral particles. If so, even vax recipient is capable of transmitting flu to others during initial phase of receiving jab. If you feel sick, agree to stay home until feeling better.
Jabbed sick people going to work (thinking they are protected) is senseless.
Unless your employer requires a particular form to be completed for the religious exemption, you need only inform them that it is your God-given right to utilize a religious exemption from the flu vax. By law, they are not to require you to give detailed information about the nature of your beliefs and by law they are required to consider granting a "reasonable accommodation" which in some cases could be the wearing of a mask, very unfortunately. Of course, that doesn't keep them from being illegal and requiring such a thing; but if they do, the law is on your side. Go to the website of Peggy Hall - Thehealthyamerican.org. She gives lots of info on religious exemptions. Also, Jeff has a post (pinned at the bottom of each article I believe) concerning exemptions.
I believe they are the same as has been made for decades. No stem cell lines like with mRNA.
I don't trust any vaccines now. I used to not have any issue with flu shot, but now I'm suspicious of everything. The main issue as I understand it is they just aren't effective so why take that crap?
The only thing in their favor is I have taken countless doses and haven't had a problem AFAIK (but maybe I'm dumber now than I would have been without them)
Yeah, that is a tough one. How do they keep track of your vaccinations in terms of reminders? Maybe you could just blow them off. It seems like the standard response to any incompetence is to throw one's hands up in the air like, "Oh well, what can you do?" But then we become part of the problem.
Jon, don’t take it. I’m closer to 80 than 70 and learning a lot! This is bad what’s happening. Now I’m finding out young adults in my church affiliation are having problems either from having Covid or the jabs. File a religious exemption!
Yes I took the flu vaccine for several years when the hospitals mandated or wear a mask. I just fell in line. No more. You can teach an “old dog” new tricks!🤭
Really I’m not a dog but that saying has been around for years. I would not under any circumstance take another vaccine.
It's not required to be religious. It can be something more closely described as moral objection. The EEOC handbook Section 12 clearly states it is more than just mainstream religious beliefs.
Object on moral grounds that it is wrong to force anyone to underfoba medical treatment as a condition of employment.
"Data are self-reported by facilities and includes aggregate counts of health care workers, grouped by health care worker category; who received an influenza vaccination; who declined; who had a medical contraindication".
Does being lied to/deceived/given untrue information as 'fact' qualify as a 'contraindication'??
"“We know our state’s health care workers want to protect their patients and prevent a potentially catastrophic outbreak of influenza, which can be deadly for vulnerable people, such as older adults and those with chronic conditions or who are immunocompromised,”"
No discussion though that these health challenges are at all/in any way associated with getting too many jabs?
How is the Health 2030 initiative coming along??
Let's see, average lifespan decreasing, chronic diseases increasing, quality of life years decreasing, annual vackzene schedule increasing every year.
Looks like our health system is working great........................just not for humans.
I had a bad reaction, some people are allergic to ingredients. Autoimmune disease diagnosis could help your case or any medical history that suggests sensitivity to all the additives
But while you are dead … Don’t forget to vote!!
Use the TPS (telepathic Postal Service).
Millions come in that way annually, I'm almost certain.
Rates of influenza vaccination among health care workers stay low
Recovery from drop during pandemic continues slow pace, OHA data show
PORTLAND, Ore.—Oregon continues to see low influenza vaccination rates among health care personnel following significant drops during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new Oregon Health Authority data.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORHA/bulletins/3bc7619
The Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination Dashboard, published by OHA’s Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Program, shows that 61% of the state’s health care workers from all facility types were vaccinated among those eligible during the 2023-2024 flu season. This is slightly lower than the 2022-2023 flu season rate of 63% -- and concerning for state officials trying to prevent the virus’s spread to people most at risk of severe illness and death.
The influenza vaccination rate among eligible health care workers had dropped 24% between the 2019-2020 and 2023-2024 influenza seasons – from 85% to 61% -- and marks the fourth consecutive year of decreasing influenza vaccination rates among health care personnel.
“Health care worker influenza vaccination rates remain low and have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Flu activity is returning to pre-pandemic levels, but we have not seen the same for health care worker influenza vaccination rates,” said Dat Tran, M.D., the HAI Program’s medical director. “It is important that we focus on increasing flu vaccination rates for this critical, frontline workforce.”
Broadcast-quality video clips of Dr. Tran speaking about rates of influenza vaccination among health care workers is available at https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ERD/Pages/media-resources.aspx.
OHA requires annual reporting of health care worker influenza vaccination data from four facility types – ambulatory surgery centers, dialysis centers, hospitals (including inpatient psychiatric facilities) and nursing facilities.
Data are self-reported by facilities and includes aggregate counts of health care workers, grouped by health care worker category; who received an influenza vaccination; who declined; who had a medical contraindication; or who had an unknown vaccine status. The Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination Dashboard displays influenza vaccination data filterable by facility type, county, and worker classification. Trends by flu season and facility-specific data are also shown.
According to the 2023-2024 dashboard, ambulatory surgery centers reported the highest flu vaccination levels among workers, with rates at 67%, followed by hospitals at 66%, nursing facilities at 37%, dialysis centers at 45% and inpatient psychiatric facilities the lowest at 24%. Dialysis centers were the only facility type that saw an increase from the 2022-2023 rates, but they were still below the rates for prior flu seasons.
The percentage of eligible health care workers who declined vaccination has increased over the years, reaching 18% for the 2023-2024 flu season, which is up from 15% for the 2022-2023 season. Additionally, a high proportion of health care workers reported having an unknown vaccination status (21%), which may contribute to low vaccination rates – and illustrates the need for improvement in facility-level documentation of vaccination status.
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services developed Healthy People 2020 with 10-year objectives for improving the health of all Americans, including showing progress toward a 90% influenza vaccination coverage goal for the health care workforce. However, Healthy People 2030 does not include a goal focused on increasing flu vaccinations among health care workers, so Oregon is continuing to use the Healthy People 2020 health worker vaccination goal as a way of directing public health action and showing where more support and education is needed.
To achieve 90% vaccination coverage, Dr. Tran said there are important steps health care facilities can take. Public health recommendations include encouraging health care workers, including those not employed by the facility—such as contractors and volunteers—to get vaccinated at the beginning of every influenza season. Facilities can also host promotional activities, such as holding mass vaccination fairs, providing vaccines at no cost to employees, starting incentive programs, and documenting all health care workers’ vaccination status and requiring a declination form for health care workers who forgo vaccination.
“We know our state’s health care workers want to protect their patients and prevent a potentially catastrophic outbreak of influenza, which can be deadly for vulnerable people, such as older adults and those with chronic conditions or who are immunocompromised,” Dr. Tran said. “We need health care workers to step up and get vaccinated.”
OHA has developed a toolkit for health care employers and workers to help them improve employee flu vaccinations rates at their facilities to protect patients, themselves and their families.
My hospital REQUIRES flu vax. I could try for a religious exemption like I got for the covid shot, but I haven't come up with a good religious justification besides "God hates stupid stuff".
Please do try for religious exemption. Contact groups in your state. Those flu shots are poison as well.
Jon, you should try. My sister has worked for a hospital for years and decided she had enough of the flu vaccine. She filed for a religious exemption and it was accepted. You don’t need any deep biblical justification, just be honest how it’s your personal conviction that caring for your body means not getting the flu vaccine. Good luck.
Thanks
“For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
Leviticus 17:14
Aborted fetal cells used in some vaccine production-morally you can oppose the entire industries practices as unethical
Thanks. Do you have any sources for documentation that fetal cell are potentially used in flu shots?
https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety/vaccine-ingredients/fetal-tissues
Article but easier to find before google search made searching difficult-some people have gone into depth on this topic.
Oh my gosh, I am SO sick after reading this! I can't even believe how terrible these people are!!!! On the website you provided is awful: "The COVID-19 vaccine (J&J/Janssen) is made using fetal retinal cells." 🤬😡🤬
Wow! I didn’t know that about the J&J. Interesting because my sister drank the kool aid and got the J&J shot and she is now suffering with Serous chorio retinopathy!! She doesn’t fit the typical individuals who get this…her doctor is totally stumped!!! 🤔
We have seen retinal occlusions on our pregnant women as well. And, my husband’s barber had a retina emergency last month had to cancel the appointment.
I can see clearly now….
Ty for the link!!
Thank you so much for posting this!! Unfortunately, my sister drank the kool aid & got the J&J shot. She is now suffering with serous chorio retinopathy!! I have come across many retinal issues over the past few years. Retinal occlusion; detached retina 👁️ etc…
DM me through Substack. I'll get you the background info I used to get my ACCOMODATIONS. Important to understand it's not legally an exemption.
It's easier to accommodate if you do not directly interact with patients.
I'll try, I'm not actually sure how to do that. You can email me at jon7190@yahoo.com, if you don't mind.
Jon, I'll send info this weekend if that's not too late. I was very organized about 2 yrs ago, but I've not looked at the info since. I captureed a lot to learn, then used that to craft my accomdation request. After that, I sent info to others like I'll send you. I'm hoping that is easy to find and just forward. I'll know soon enough.
If you need some info today or tomorrow, reply here to let me know. I'll get some info quickly that will get you started.
For the curious, my strategy started with info from attorney Robert Barnes via his locals subscriber website. He explained the law, provided sample letters, advised on how to determine what you needed to customize so it was YOUR letter despite starting from a template, and he discussed how to respond to different corporate reactions up to and including refusal. His insights into how to influence the company to follow the law were very interesting and worked for some people. I didn't have any issues, so my good fortune allowed me to easily get the approval. Be I was quite ready to and capable of filing in court to avoid being fired. Might have worked if necessary, might not. But I had solid basis for hope, which was very important at that time.
If only id have had the courage at that time to mention all this to my daughter... She wanted to go to concerts and is a med school student, so she took the initial jabs. Fortunately, she seems to be fine and has since noted I have the data and strategy if another mandate occurs.
And telling her repeatedly to avoid all mRNA injections has helped the conversations on bad medicine bc it's not blaming the hot button of the specific COVID jabs.
Try focusing on mRNA platform dangers and the radar for other bad medicine will likely start picking up more and more
The good Lord didn’t make vaccines, they aren’t natural, and there is a real risk if you take one. Does the benefit outweigh the risk? You said yourself that they aren’t effective, so it’s all risk and no benefit. Please try for the exemption!
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/b/excipient-table-2.pdf
A list of ingredients. Ick.
Thanks. Nice ingredients. Safe to say those vaccines aren't "organic".
Research if flu vax uses attenuated viral particles. If so, even vax recipient is capable of transmitting flu to others during initial phase of receiving jab. If you feel sick, agree to stay home until feeling better.
Jabbed sick people going to work (thinking they are protected) is senseless.
Unless your employer requires a particular form to be completed for the religious exemption, you need only inform them that it is your God-given right to utilize a religious exemption from the flu vax. By law, they are not to require you to give detailed information about the nature of your beliefs and by law they are required to consider granting a "reasonable accommodation" which in some cases could be the wearing of a mask, very unfortunately. Of course, that doesn't keep them from being illegal and requiring such a thing; but if they do, the law is on your side. Go to the website of Peggy Hall - Thehealthyamerican.org. She gives lots of info on religious exemptions. Also, Jeff has a post (pinned at the bottom of each article I believe) concerning exemptions.
Is the flu shot made with the same mRNA problems? Maybe decline on the new technology? I'm just trying to look for a different angle.
Decline on the metals in it too.
I believe they are the same as has been made for decades. No stem cell lines like with mRNA.
I don't trust any vaccines now. I used to not have any issue with flu shot, but now I'm suspicious of everything. The main issue as I understand it is they just aren't effective so why take that crap?
The only thing in their favor is I have taken countless doses and haven't had a problem AFAIK (but maybe I'm dumber now than I would have been without them)
Yeah, that is a tough one. How do they keep track of your vaccinations in terms of reminders? Maybe you could just blow them off. It seems like the standard response to any incompetence is to throw one's hands up in the air like, "Oh well, what can you do?" But then we become part of the problem.
Pray about it. The Lord can do anything!
They're pretty efficient with that sort of thing. I'm sure they'd track me down.
Jon, don’t take it. I’m closer to 80 than 70 and learning a lot! This is bad what’s happening. Now I’m finding out young adults in my church affiliation are having problems either from having Covid or the jabs. File a religious exemption!
Yes I took the flu vaccine for several years when the hospitals mandated or wear a mask. I just fell in line. No more. You can teach an “old dog” new tricks!🤭
Really I’m not a dog but that saying has been around for years. I would not under any circumstance take another vaccine.
It's not required to be religious. It can be something more closely described as moral objection. The EEOC handbook Section 12 clearly states it is more than just mainstream religious beliefs.
Object on moral grounds that it is wrong to force anyone to underfoba medical treatment as a condition of employment.
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/legal/vaccines-and-the-law
You should be able to get either a medical or religious exemption. Dr. Simone Gold had exemption letters on the American Frontline Doctors website.
Oh wow, very interesting trend, thanks for sharing this article!
"flu" shots...ALL POISON...#WTFU
Shared. Thanx.
"Data are self-reported by facilities and includes aggregate counts of health care workers, grouped by health care worker category; who received an influenza vaccination; who declined; who had a medical contraindication".
Does being lied to/deceived/given untrue information as 'fact' qualify as a 'contraindication'??
"“We know our state’s health care workers want to protect their patients and prevent a potentially catastrophic outbreak of influenza, which can be deadly for vulnerable people, such as older adults and those with chronic conditions or who are immunocompromised,”"
No discussion though that these health challenges are at all/in any way associated with getting too many jabs?
How is the Health 2030 initiative coming along??
Let's see, average lifespan decreasing, chronic diseases increasing, quality of life years decreasing, annual vackzene schedule increasing every year.
Looks like our health system is working great........................just not for humans.
😆🤣
That dark humor is *chef’s kiss* 😁
"If you or a loved one has died, you MAY be entitled to compensation."
I still have the Jimmy Falon song 🎼 XBB.1.5 in my head : ( it's a curse, lol
You have my sympathy.
.....but, can you still vote ? 🤔
That's the Warp Speed vaccine, correct?
Warp speed....warp speed....warp speed..... where have I heard that before?
Oh, that's right - Netanyahu's friend.
I had a bad reaction, some people are allergic to ingredients. Autoimmune disease diagnosis could help your case or any medical history that suggests sensitivity to all the additives