Measles exposure at the MUHC
The MUHC is warning that people could have been exposed to measles at the Glen hospital between March 23 and 27 because a worker there has it.
Unvaccinated people are allowed to work at hospitals?
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Jim Royal 22:50 on 2019-04-07 Permalink
Vaccines are not 100% effective for everyone. A typical vaccine is effective for 85% to 95% of the population. So a person could be vaccinated and still be susceptible. It’s another reason why maintaining herd immunity is so crucial.
Joey 08:32 on 2019-04-08 Permalink
What proportion of the adult population could prove that their vaccines are up to date? Do most people have their vaccination books from childhood handy?
John B 13:21 on 2019-04-08 Permalink
They would also have to tread very carefully requiring or inquiring about vaccinations.
For requiring vaccinations, there are human rights implications for the workers requiring they undergo a medical procedure, (vaccination), as a condition of employment, and applied with 100% rigour it would discriminate against people who can’t be vaccinated.
Asking about vaccination history of candidates could reveal things the candidates aren’t comfortable sharing with their employer, for example, someone with many more vaccinations than normal probably has or had some sort of major disease – something that should not factor into the hiring decision – or someone with very few or no vaccinations may belong to a religion that prohibits some or all vaccinations, which opens the door to accusations of discrimination based on religion.
This all assumes the employee is someone who can be vaccinated. There may be a valid medical reason that the employee wasn’t.
I’d like to have a way to know my family and I are not going to be exposed to easily-controlled diseases at the hospital, but I think this is a case of a devil in the details.
Also, Joey’s right. I bet most adults cannot provide accurate, detailed, proof of their vaccinations. I know I can’t.
John S 16:21 on 2019-04-08 Permalink
Also persons born before the period of mass vaccination (I can’t recall the precise date) are assumed to be immune due to the widespread epidemics of measles that occurred back then. The person involved might be older – and was “assumed” to be immune but actually wasn’t.
Blork 17:34 on 2019-04-08 Permalink
CBC Radio news says that the person HAD been immunized.
Kevin 19:05 on 2019-04-08 Permalink
The MUHC requires all staff to be vaccinated, but vaccination is rarely 100% effective. However even in those cases where a person does not become immune it very often provides benefit in that it lessens the severity of the disease should you get it
Kate 13:55 on 2019-04-09 Permalink
Fair enough, all. I’ve never had the shot because I had measles as a kid – but I couldn’t prove it either.