"Two recent stories about the swine flu pandemic reflect persistent fears about the vaccine and reveal how work places are gearing up to protect their employees from the virus.
First off: the worries. For weeks, it's become a mantra of public health officials and infectious disease experts: the swine flu vaccine is safe. Make sure you get one.
Nevertheless, parents are still very uneasy about the vaccine. A recent article by our colleague Meredith Cohn found parents who fear the inoculation hasn't been thoroughly tested and others who worry about giving their small children too many vaccines. Others are bewildered by the onslaught of information about the virus and the development of the vaccine. An Associated Press poll last week found that a third of parents oppose giving their children the vaccine. At a dinner party I attended Saturday night, I heard the same fears repeated by moms."
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