Healthcare Provider Influenza Vaccination Rate's Effect on Community

According to the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, for every 15 healthcare providers who receive the influenza vaccination, one fewer person in the community will contract an influenza-like illness.

For the 2011-2012 influenza season, the influenza vaccination rate of California hospital healthcare personnel was 68 percent. If 90 percent of California healthcare personnel were vaccinated there would be about 30,000 fewer cases of influenza-like illness in California.

Source: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology