2024-01-19 23:37:03
Outaouais: 16.6% of healthcare employees vaccinated against the flu – TVA Gatineau
Juliette Babin | January 19, 2024
Less than one in five people in Outaouais recently rolled up their sleeves to get vaccinated against the flu. This also includes health personnel, despite the recent call from Public Health to reduce pressure on emergencies.
We learn that 16.6% of healthcare employees in Outaouais have recently been vaccinated against the flu. A rate that satisfies the CISSSO.
For us, we are satisfied with the vaccination rate we had this year.
-Frédérique Morin, vaccination planning and logistics coordinator at CISSSO
This vaccination rate, however, worries Jacques Lapierre, responsible for producing the influenza vaccine for 30 years.
What this gives me as a message is that these people do not believe in vaccination. […] You cannot work in a hospital environment without thinking about protecting yourself, but above all also protecting your patients.
-Jacques Lapierre, retired virologist
For its part, the CISSSO defends itself and specifies that health workers are not required to identify themselves as such at the time of vaccination, which could result in certain vaccinated workers not being counted.
Among the Canadian population, approximately 17% have been vaccinated against influenza, or 2% less than the Quebec average.
According to Mr. Lapierre, vaccination is one of the only effective tools to protect against the disease. As for the COVID-19 vaccine, since September 29, 16% of Outaouais residents have received a new dose. Data that the CISSSO considers satisfactory.
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