... The fourth reason health-care workers give for not getting vaccinated is that it is inconvenient. ... many hospitals are addressing the issue... In 1988 there was an outbreak of influenza at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, where only 4 percent of health-care workers had been vaccinated. That prompted the hospital to promote employee vaccinations and ensure that workers stayed home if they got sick. A decade later, the vaccination rate was 67 percent, the confirmed influenza cases among health-care workers declined from 42 percent to 9 percent, and transmission ...