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Re: Did You Get the Flu Shot and/or The Flu?
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Originally Posted by Cindy
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/flu-se...--finance.html
Sniffling, groggy and afraid she had caught the flu, Diana Zavala dragged herself in to work anyway for a day she felt she couldn't afford to miss.
A school speech therapist who works as an independent contractor, she doesn't have paid sick days. So the mother of two reported to work and hoped for the best — and was aching, shivering and coughing by the end of the day. She stayed home the next day, then loaded up on medicine and returned to work.
"It's a balancing act" between physical health and financial well-being, she said.
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I suspect that it's only a matter of time before people who work with children will be forced to get the flu shot.
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