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Scientists at the National Institutes of
Health are working with a biotech company to quickly start clinical trials of
an experimental messenger RNA vaccine and fast track it to licensure. 1 The FDA has not yet licensed messenger
RNA vaccines that use part of the RNA of a virus to manipulate the body’s
immune system into stimulating a potent immune response. 2 3 It looks like the coronavirus
vaccine will be the first genetically engineered messenger RNA vaccine to be
fast tracked to licensure, just like Gardasil was the first genetically
engineered virus-like particle vaccine to be fast tracked to licensure. 4 5
There likely will be lots of questions
about whether the fast tracked coronavirus vaccine was studied long enough to
adequately demonstrate safety, especially for people who have trouble resolving
strong inflammatory responses in their bodies and may be at greater risk for
vaccine reactions.6 7 8 9 10 However, there is no question about
what will happen if the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices (ACIP) 11 12 recommends that all Americans get the
newly licensed coronavirus vaccine.
The
government has a National Vaccine Plan. It is a Plan designed to make sure you,
your child and everyone in America gets every dose of every vaccine that
government officials recommend now and in the future.
1986-1996:
Establishing & Creating the Plan
Established
under the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act during the Reagan
Administration, 13 the Plan didn’t really get traction
until Congress funded the Vaccines for Children program in 1993 under the
Clinton Administration 14 15 and gave the Department of Health and
Human Services authority to fund a network of state-based electronic vaccine
tracking registries 16 that can monitor the vaccination
histories of children without the informed consent of their parents.
In
1995, then Secretary of Health Donna Shalala used rule-making authority to
authorize the Social Security Administration to disclose the social security
number of every baby born in the country to state governments without parental
consent.17 Federal officials explained that – quote – “public health program uses of the
social security numbers would include, but are not limited to, establishing
immunization registries” and that new routine use of social security numbers
would help the government operate “a national network of coordinated statewide
immunization registries.” 18
By
1996, when Congress established a national Electronic Health Records (EHR)
system under HIPPA, 19 the stage had been set for a government-operated electronic surveillance system to monitor the
personal medical records and vaccination status of all Americans. 20 21 22 23 The justification
for this big data grab by the government, which clearly violated the privacy of
Americans, was to– quote – “protect the public by reducing
disease.”
Nationwide
Electronic Health Records & Vaccine Tracking Systems
Today,
the nationwide federally funded Electronic Health Records system captures the
details of every visit you make to a doctor’s office, hospital, pharmacy,
laboratory or other medical facility; every medical diagnosis you get; every
drug you have been prescribed and every vaccine you accept or refuse.
Your Electronic Health Record can be accessed not only by
government health agencies like the Social Security Administration, Medicaid
and federal and state health and law enforcement agencies, 24 25 but also can be shared with authorized
third parties such as doctors, health insurance companies, HMOs and other
corporations, hospitals, labs, nursing homes and medical researchers. 26 27 28
A new
Health Information Exchange 29 30 31 initiative funded by the government
will make it even easier for computerized health and vaccine records databases
to tag, track down and sanction Americans who do not go along with the National
Vaccine Plan in the future. 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
What
Happened to the Plan’s Duty to Prevent Adverse Reactions to Vaccines?
Ironically,
when Congress directed the Department of Health and Human Services to create a
National Vaccine Program in the 1986 Act, federal health officials were told to
put together a Plan to – quote – “achieve
optimal prevention of human infectious diseases through immunization and to
achieve optimal prevention against adverse reactions to vaccines.” 39 The Plan was not supposed to
focus solely on vaccine development and promotion but to equally focus on
preventing vaccine reactions.
Yet,
in the very first 1994 National Vaccine Plan only four out of 25 “objectives”
and only two out of 14 anticipated “outcomes” addressed preventing vaccine
reactions. 40 The 2010 version of the Plan 41 also largely ignored the legal duty of
HHS to conduct vaccine safety research to fill in long standing knowledge gaps
and take steps to make vaccines and vaccine policies less likely to cause
harm. 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
Looking
back, it appears Congress was not really committed to funding research and
creating substantive initiatives to reduce vaccine risks, regardless of what
was stated in the 1986 Act, or there would been congressional oversight and
federal agencies would have been directed to follow the law rather than ignore
it for more than 30 years. 53
Government’s
Vaccine Marketing Plan for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Instead,
government agencies have brazenly forged lucrative public private business
partnerships with the pharmaceutical industry and the medical establishment to:
- develop
many new vaccines; 54 55 56 57
- increase
public demand for vaccines; 58
- raise
vaccination rates among children to nearly 100 percent; 59
- create
and expand electronic vaccine tracking registries; 60 61 62 63 64 and
- promote
global vaccination programs, 65 66 even though the primary purpose
of the 1986 Act was to reduce vaccine reactions and protect the U.S.
childhood vaccine supply, 67 not fund and expand global
vaccination programs.
In
fact, federal health officials accurately characterize the U.S. vaccination
system in the 21st century as a business. A decade ago they admitted
that – quote –“The 2010 National Vaccine Plan provides a
vision for the U.S. vaccine and immunization enterprise for the next
decade.” 68 That’s because they know the National
Vaccine Plan is really a Vaccine Marketing Plan for the pharmaceutical
industry. 69 70 71 72
So,
if you are wondering why many states are trying to pass laws eliminating all
vaccine exemptions and mandate every vaccine the pharmaceutical industry
produces and the CDC recommends, 73 74 75 76 you don’t have to look any further
than the government’s well-financed National Vaccine Plan.
Implementation
of The Plan Accelerated in 2011
Implementation
of the Plan was accelerated in 2011 after the U.S. Supreme Court declared FDA
licensed vaccines to be –quote – “unavoidably unsafe” for the purpose of
removing almost all remaining liability from drug companies when vaccines hurt
people. 77 78
Since
2011, two powerful CDC-appointed vaccine advisory committees influenced by
members associated with the pharmaceutical and medical trade industries – the
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) 79 80 81 82 83 and the National Vaccine Advisory
Committee (NVAC) 84 85 86 – have been busy coming up with new
ways to meet strategic goals of the National Vaccine Plan.
When
highly publicized cases of measles were reported in California’s Disneyland in
2015 87 and in New York in 2019, 88 89 with military precision pursuit of the
Plan was kicked into even high gear. 90 91
During
the past five years, California, Vermont, New York, Maine and Hawaii have lost
vaccine exemptions, even though tens of thousands of Americans rose up in
protest. 92 In 2019, the people managed to hold on
to exemptions in states like Oregon, Arizona and New Jersey 93 but this year, bills to force vaccine
use are already threatening parental, civil and human rights in Virginia, Massachusetts,
Florida, Washington, Pennsylvania and more. 94
Five
Main Types of Vaccine Laws Being Proposed in States
These
are the five main types of laws being proposed in the states and your state may
be one of them:
Number
One: State laws that eliminate all
personal belief vaccine exemptions allowing you to follow your conscience or
religious beliefs and make it illegal for physicians to grant a medical
exemption unless it strictly conforms to very narrow CDC-approved
contraindications to vaccination.
National
vaccine coverage rates among school children are at 95 percent for core
vaccines like polio, pertussis, measles and chickenpox, yet, government health
officials are not satisfied. 95 They have narrowed vaccine
contraindications so that almost no medical history or health condition
qualifies as a reason for a medical exemption. 96
If
you or your child have had previous vaccine reactions, are vaccine injured,
have a brother or sister who was injured or died after vaccination, or are
suffering with a brain or immune system disorder that the CDC’s Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) does not consider to be a
contraindication to vaccination, states like California 97 98 are denying
physicians the right to exercise professional judgment and give children a
medical exemption to vaccination are threatening human rights. 99
No
wonder less than one percent of vaccine reactions are ever reported to the
federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System 100 and doctors feel free to discriminate
against and deny medical care to anyone who is not vaccinated according to CDC
schedules. 101
Laws
that eliminate medical, religious and conscience exemptions to vaccination and
ban citizens from getting a school education – even a college education – do
violate civil and human rights and so do vaccine mandates by employers who fire
or refuse to hire workers based on their vaccination status. 102 103 104 The two professions being
targeted first for workplace vaccine mandates are healthcare 105 106 107 and childcare workers, 108 109 but they certainly will not be the
last. 110
Number
Two: State laws that turn unelected
members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices into de facto
lawmakers and automatically mandate all current and future federally
recommended vaccines without any public discussion or vote by duly elected
state legislators.
Under
the U.S. Constitution, state legislatures hold the majority of power to pass
public health laws, so vaccine laws are state laws. 111 112 If states hand that
constitutional authority over to an unelected federal government committee, the
people no longer can work through their elected state representatives to make
sure laws do not force involuntary medical risk taking and punish citizens
exercising civil and human rights. 113
It is
clear that Pharma and medical trade lobbyists partnering with government
officials to implement the National Vaccine Plan are unhappy they have to spend
so much time and money trying to strong arm state legislators into mandating
every CDC recommended vaccine. At the same time, some politicians are not happy
that a growing number of Americans are showing up in state Capitols to oppose
oppressive vaccine mandates.
Today,
it costs a staggering $3,000 to give a child every one of the 69 doses of 16
vaccines on the federal government’s schedule. 114 In addition to coronavirus vaccine,
there are more than a dozen experimental vaccines being fast tracked to market
for TB, influenza, HIV/AIDS, gonorrhea, herpes simplex, strep A and B, e-coli,
RSV, salmonella, and malaria, 115 with several hundred more being
developed in a global vaccine market estimated to balloon to nearly $100
billion by 2026. 116 117
State
laws that automatically mandate all federally recommended vaccines are handing
Big Pharma a big blank check and putting an unknown number of vaccine
vulnerable children and adults at risk for serious health problems if they are
forced to use every one of them. 118 119 120 121 122
Number
Three: State laws that allow doctors to declare minor children mentally
competent to consent to vaccination so children can be vaccinated without the
knowledge of their parents.
There
is plenty of scientific evidence that children’s brains are not developed
enough before or during teenage years to support rational benefit and risk
decision-making, especially if they are subjected to pressure. 123 124 Giving doctors the legal authority
to, in effect, go behind parents’ backs and persuade a minor child to get
liability free vaccines violates the legal right of parents to consent to
medical interventions performed on their children. 125 It also puts vaccine vulnerable
children at greater risk for suffering reactions. 126
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Parents
know their child’s personal and family medical history best and if parents are
left in the dark, not only are they blocked from preventing vaccine reactions
but there is no way for them to monitor a child after vaccination for signs of
reactions so they can immediately take their child for treatment. 127
Number
Four: State laws requiring schools to
publicly post vaccine coverage rates for the purpose of shaming schools that
allow students with vaccine exemptions to receive a school education.
Publicly
posting school vaccination rates and numbers of students with exemptions
creates a hostile community environment by targeting certain schools and
families, whose children have vaccine exemptions, for discrimination and
abuse. 128 129 130
It is
an illusion that some schools are safer based on vaccination rates. For
example, even schools with 100 percent vaccination rates and zero exemptions
have had outbreaks of pertussis 131 and schools with very high
vaccination rates have had outbreaks of measles and mumps. 132 133 That is because vaccinated children
and adults can get infected with and transmit infectious diseases but sometimes
show few or no symptoms and are never diagnosed or reported. 134 135 136 137 138 139 140
Children
and teachers interact with many other vaccinated and unvaccinated people
outside of the school setting. It is discriminatory to require public posting
of the numbers of healthy students with vaccine exemptions, when schools are
not required to publicly post the numbers of students who are infected with
transmissible diseases like hepatitis B and C, HIV, streptococcal,
mononucleosis, cytomegalovirus, e-coli, Fifths disease, herpes simplex and
more.
Number
Five: State laws that operate vaccine
tracking registries and integrate them into Electronic Health Records systems
without the consent of those being tracked.
The
National Vaccine Information Center has a two-decade public record of opposing
the creation of national or state based electronic surveillance systems that
automatically enroll children and adults without their informed consent to
monitor their vaccination status and health histories. 141
Not
only have there been past security breaches with electronic databases dumping
personally identifying information into the public domain, 142 but there is legitimate concern that
the government should not be conducting electronic surveillance on citizens
while pursuing a National Vaccine Plan that encourages punitive societal
sanctions, such as the inability to get a school education or a job, for
individuals who refuse to go along with the Plan.
Learn
About Federal & State Government Police Powers to Compel Vaccine Use
For
more information on the history and types of public health laws that allow the
federal government and states to use police powers to compel vaccine use, go to
NVIC’s website at NVIC.org. 143 144
To
learn more about vaccine legislation pending in your state and talking points
you can use to educate your legislators, go to NVIC
Advocacy.org and become a user of NVIC’s free online Advocacy
Portal. You will be put into direct contact with your own state and federal
representatives and sent emails when bills that threaten or expand your freedom
to make voluntary vaccine choices are moving in your state so you can make your
voice heard, including showing up at scheduled public hearings.
Making Government Work for Us
In America, we are governed by laws
that the representatives we elect make, so it is important to vet all
candidates for positions on issues you care about before going to the polls.
Good laws can be enacted and bad laws can be repealed but only if we wake up,
stand up and actively participate to make our representative government work
for us.
Already this year, there have been more
than 50 good bills introduced in a number of states that defend voluntary
vaccine choices. This is a time for positive action.
It’s your health. Your family. Your
choice.
Note:
This commentary provides referenced information and perspective on a topic
related to vaccine science, policy, law or ethics being discussed in
public forums and by U.S. lawmakers. The websites of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) provide information and perspective of federal agencies
responsible for vaccine research, development, regulation and
policymaking.
