Opinion: To put Covid-19 behind us, all Americans should be vaccinated against it
My work as an emergency medicine physician has taken me to urban and rural areas on both coasts and in the middle of the country. No matter where I see patients, I hear excuses like these for not getting immunized against influenza:
- “Flu shots don’t work.”
- “I got the vaccination once and it made me sick.”
- “We don’t believe in vaccination.”
- “Vaccination is dangerous.”
It puzzles me, then, that they’ve come to the emergency department because they are feeling awful with fever, chills, cough, body aches, and fatigue — in other words, with the flu — expecting a fix for something that could have been easily prevented.
