An article in Vaccine [“Modeling the Effects of Influenza Vaccination of Health Care Workers in Hospital Departments”(2009, Vol. 27(44), pp. 6261–6267)] considered the immunization of healthcare workers to reduce the hazard rate of influenza virus infection for patients in regular hospital departments. In this analysis, each patient’s length of stay in the department is taken as exponentially distributed with a mean of 7.0 days.