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Summary
The author concludes that health-care facilities must make influenza vaccinations mandatory for all employees.
Why?
Because health-care facilities have a duty to protect their patients from unnecessary harm.
And, influenza viruses pose substantial risks to patients.
Vaccines can significantly reduce the spread of influenza.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that there are no other ways to protect patients from the influenza virus besides making vaccinations mandatory for all employees. (This overlooks the possibility that the hospital doesn’t need to make vaccinations mandatory; there could be alternatives to mandatory vaccination or perhaps even to vaccination at all.)
17.
Which one of the following ██ ██ ██████████ ████████ ██ ███ █████████
a
Health-care facility employees ██ ███ ██████ █████████ ███████████ ████████ ██ █████████ █████ ███████
Not necessary, because even if health-care facility employees DO regard mandatory vaccination policies as violating their rights, these policies can still be necessary for the purpose of protecting patients.
b
Influenza viruses are ███ ████ ███████ ████████ █████████ ██ █████ ████████ ████ ████████ ████ ████████ █ ███████████ █████████
Not necessary, becaue even if influenza viruses are not the “most” harmful pathogen, they can still be harmful enough to pose substantial risks to patients, and hospitals can still be under a duty to protect their patients from influenza.
c
Most patients in ███████████ ██████████ ███ ███ ██████████ ███████ ██████████
Not necessary, because even if half or more patients ARE vaccinated against influenza, that still leaves the possibility there are others who are not vaccinated, and health-care facilities would still have a duty to protect those patients from unnecessary harm.
d
Voluntary vaccination policies ██ ███████████ ██████████ █████ ███ ██████████ ███████ ████████ ████ ███ █████ █████ ██ █████████ ████████
Necessary, because if it were not true — if voluntary vaccination policies WOULD adequately protect patients — then health-care facilities would not need to institute mandatory vaccination policies.
e
Society has already ████████ ███ ████ ██ █████████ ███████████ ██ █████ █████████
Not necessary, because whether society has already accepted mandatory vaccination in other contexts has no bearing on whether the health-care facilities have a duty to implement mandatory vaccination for the purpose of protecting patients.