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The city will soon require some 150,000 children who go to preschool or day care to get flu shots. The Board of Health voted Wednesday for the mandatory vaccine for children under 6, but parents ma… ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Children who go to preschool or day care in New York City will now be required to get flu shots.The Board of Health voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of the mandatory ...
Thermometers at day care centers? The government is urging the nation's 360,000 child care providers to be vigilant about sending home children who may have the flu - and the main symptom to check ...
Only 24.5 percent of child care center directors reported having a flu vaccine requirement for children, and only 13.1 percent said they required adult caregivers to be immunized against flu ...
Investigators in the study created flu vaccine messaging – including a brief video, flyer and a scripted health provider question, “Would you be willing to accept the influenza vaccine?” – and ...
Ferrets play in a "day care" at the University of Pittsburgh to simulate transmission of flu viruses among kids. Courtesy of Seema Lakdawala (Emory University) and Nicole Rockey (Duke University).