Do health care workers stay home from work when they’re sick?
Not always
If you have gone to the doctor recently with flu-like symptoms, your doctor may have advised you to stay home from work until you have recovered. But, do you know if your doctor and other health care workers also follow that advice? Unfortunately, many of them may not, according to a NIOSHstudy in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Each year in the United States, the flu causes mild to severe illness and at times can lead to death. One of the best ways to prevent the flu is by getting the flu vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If you do develop symptoms of the flu, however, you can prevent it from spreading in the workplace by staying home. The CDC recommends staying home from work until you have had no fever for at least 24 hours.