This means that over 2.3 million MDs and RNs are unvaccinated and at risk not only for contracting influenza but also for passing it on to others. Some of these cases are unwittingly passed from health professionals to their patients. I don't get sick and I never get influenza. Many of us develop only mild symptoms of the disease, so we often don't get a florid influenza syndrome. But even with minimal symptoms, we can still transmit the full-blown illness to our patients.
Health professionals are notorious for going to work even when sick.
We breathe the air. We infect others with respiratory viruses. I'm not in a risk group. If you are a healthy person under the age of 50, you might not be in an influenza risk group, but as a health professional, you put other people at risk. Unvaccinated health care workers put hundreds of others at risk for influenza.