Nurses celebrate small victory in vaccine fight
October 20, 2009 11:09 PM
A nurse who filed a lawsuit to stop the state from making health care workers get flu vaccines is celebrating a small victory.
Nurse Lorna Patterson and collegauges sued the state to stop a health department mandate that would require all health care workers in the state to get both the season flu and H1N1 flu vaccines or risk losing their jobs.
On Friday, a judge ordered placed a temporary restraining order on the regulation. it put the breaks on the health department's plans for workers for now.
"All of us are very happy with the decision of the judge, and that it was made so timely," said Patterson, an Albany nurse of 28 years.
The fight isn't over yet. Both sides will be back on court for round two on Oct. 30.
