(Reuters Health) - Only a quarter of childcare centers in the United States requ...
- Only a quarter of childcare centers in the United States require children in their care to get a flu shot, and even fewer require childcare workers to be vaccinated, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
In the United States, nearly 1 in 4 children under age 5 attend large group childcare or preschool programs. “Young children are the shedders and the spreaders,” Lehman said in a telephone interview. “They don’t always have the best personal hygiene. Flu is spread through secretions and touches of hands. As you can imagine, in a daycare setting, it allows the virus to spread.”Shope and colleagues based their findings on a 2016 telephone survey of 518 childcare center directors in 48 states that were randomly chosen from a national database of licensed U.S. childcare centers.
“The reported requirements for flu vaccine by childcare directors for both children and adults are really low. The only factor that influenced that was the very low number of states that had laws requiring flu vaccines,” Shope said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , which funded the research, recommends flu shots for everyone age 6 months or older, but many go unvaccinated.
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