Flu vaccination was most common among physicians (85.6%), followed by nurses (77.9%), and other health care professionals (62.8%).

"I urge everyone to join me and get a flu vaccine this year," Dr. Koh said.
Vaccination coverage was 76.9% among health care professionals working in hospitals, 67.7% among those in physician offices, and 52.4% among those in long-term care facilities.
Physicians who worked in hospitals received the vaccine at a rate of 86.7%, compared to other health care professionals who worked in long-term care facilities (50.2%).
At hospitals that required influenza vaccination, coverage among health cre professionals was 95.2%. At hospitals not requiring vaccination, coverage was 68.2%.
Among the third of health care professionals overall who did not get vaccinated, three most common reasons were a belief that they did not need it (28.1%), a concern about vaccination effectiveness (26.4%) and a concern about side effects (25.1%).