Hospitals and health-care workers saying 'no' to shots

Sunday, February 23, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Despite President Bush's recommendation, hospitals and health-care workers are turning down the smallpox vaccine, worried about the inoculation's side effects and unconvinced that the threat of a bioterror attack justifies the risk.

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