For Dr. William Schaffner, statistics like this are very frustrating. "It is a professional obligation on the part of health care workers to make sure that they are as protected against influenza as possible," Schaffner said. Also, "being in close proximity to patients, having conversations with them, bending over their bed, seeing them in the clinic while you're doing procedures, you would be breathing out viruses and spreading influenza into your patients." However, it seems to be that many health care professionals are refusing to get the flu vaccination due to the fact that many have gotten the flu after being vaccinated. In Des Moines, Iowa, operating room nurse Pauline Taylor knows her refusal to get a flu shot is based on faulty logic. But ever since she got sick after getting a shot a few years ago, she's sworn off the vaccine. "I rarely get sick. The only thing I could narrow it down to is that I had gotten this shot," said Taylor, who works at University Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. "I know that it's not a live virus. It just seemed pretty coincidental."
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