Flu Shot Time, or Maybe Not

From the Cobbler's Children Have No Shoe File. Delawareonline reported on Monday that 25 percent of all health care workers in the state's seven acute-care hospitals did not receive a flu vaccinated in 2009. That's about 4,000 health care professionals. In one hospital, St. Francis in Wilmington, nearly 55 percent of workers said they didn't get a shot.

The reasons:

-- no time.

-- "I never catch the flu."

-- Fear the shot will give them the flu.

And, this one is rich:

-- scared of needles.