“We’re Saving the Vaccine for Public School Students” (835 hits)
A southwest Virginia mother of two brought her children to the public health department for an H1N1 vaccination. They told her, “We’re saving the vaccine for public school students.” A northern Virginia mom asked the Alexandria school system if her kids could be vaccinated with the others. They promptly rebuffed her.
What does HSLDA have to do with flu vaccinations? Everything—if homeschoolers are being discriminated against. HSLDA Senior Counsel Scott Woodruff called the Alexandria officials, but they refused to budge, insisting that it was the school’s property, and they could decide who comes on it. For the mom at the other end of the state, Woodruff called a state health department official, who promptly placed a call to southwest Virginia, and the homeschooled children got the vaccinations. One of her children had a respiratory issue.
Woodruff followed up with the state official and asked if unvaccinated children would get priority treatment at local public health departments consistent with their status as members of a “target group” the Center for Disease Control has identified. The surprising answer: no. She said that homeschooled children—who don’t have access to all the convenient public school vaccination events—would have to get in line and be treated like people who are not in a target group...
FDA asks caregivers to report vaccine problems The head of the Food and Drug Administration is urging healthcare professionals to report any adverse effects they believe might be linked to the H1N1 influenza vaccine to the agency's Vaccine Event Reporting System. http://vaers.hhs.gov/index
