Every state has vaccine requirements for children entering school. Parents do not protest against these vaccines. What makes the coronavirus vaccine different from the many other required vaccines?
Here are the vaccine requirements for children entering school in Tennessee:
The Tennessee Department of Health is responsible for immunization requirements for those who attend child care, pre-school, school and college. The current immunization requirements are in the Tennessee Department of Health Rules.
The Official Immunization Certificate is available in local health departments through the Tennessee Immunization Information System (TennIIS).
Detailed guidance for healthcare providers on the rules and certificate is available at the TennIIS website. Tennessee healthcare providers who give vaccines can register as authorized users and download the form through TennIIS.
The state’s immunization schedule follows the current schedule published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
- Information for Parents – Childcare – 12th Grade Immunization Requirements
- Information for Higher Education Students – College Immunization Requirements
- Information for Healthcare Providers – TDH Summary of Immunization Rules-Certificate Instructions, TN Immunization Requirements Summary Table, Tennessee Immunization Information System (TennIIS)
A brief summary of the required immunizations for child care facilities and schools is listed below.
Children enrolling in child care facilities, pre-school, pre-Kindergarten
Infants entering child care facilities must be up to date at the time of enrollment and are required to provide an updated certificate after completing all of the required vaccines due no later than 18 months of age.
- Poliomyelitis (IPV or OPV)
- Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) – age younger than 5 years only
- Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) – age younger than 5 years only
- Measles, Mumps, Rubella – 1 dose of each, normally given together as MMR
- Varicella – 1 dose or credible history of disease
Children enrolling in Kindergarten
- Hepatitis B (HBV)
- Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (DTaP, or DT if appropriate)
- Poliomyelitis (IPV or OPV) – final dose on or after the 4th birthday
- Measles, Mumps, Rubella – 2 doses of each, usually given together as MMR
- Varicella – 2 doses or credible history of disease
- Hepatitis A – total of 2 doses, spaced at least 6 – 18 months apart
All children entering 7th grade (including currently enrolled students)
- Tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis booster (Tdap) – evidence of one Tdap dose given any time before 7th grade entry is required regardless of Td history
- Varicella – 2 doses or credible history of disease
- Update to 7th Grade Chickenpox (Varicella) Immunization Requirements
Children who are new enrollees in a TN school in grades other than Kindergarten
- Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (DTaP, or DT if appropriate)
- Measles, Mumps, Rubella (2 doses of each, normally given together as MMR)
- Poliomyelitis (IPV or OPV) – final dose on or after the 4th birthday now required
- Varicella (2 doses or credible history of disease) – previously only one dose was required
- Hepatitis B (HBV) – previously only for Kindergarten, 7th grade entry
- New students entering grades other than 7th grade are not required to have Tdap
Full-time Tennessee college students
- Measles, Mumps, Rubella (2 doses of each, normally given together as MMR): if born on or after January 1, 1957 only.
- Varicella (2 doses or credible history of disease): if born on or after January 1, 1980 only.
- Hepatitis B (HBV) – only for health science students expected to have patient contact (before patient contact begins).
- Meningococcal – At a minimum of 1 dose given at 16 years of age or greater if enrolling in public institution for the first time and under 22 years of age and living in on-campus housing; private institutions set their own requirements for this vaccine.
Children with medical or religious exemption to requirements
Medical – Physician (MD, DO) or department Public Health Nurse authorized to indicate specific vaccines medically exempted (because of risk of harm) on the new form. Other vaccines remain required. The medical reason for the exemption does not need to be provided.
Religious – This exemption requires a signed statement by the parent/guardian that vaccination conflicts with their religious tenets or practices. If the child needs documentation of a health examination for the school, it must be noted by the healthcare provider on the immunization certificate. In that case, the provider should check the box that the parent has sought a religious exemption to explain why immunization information is absent or incomplete.
These are the required vaccines in New York State:
Vaccines required for day care, pre-K, and school attendance
- Diphtheria and Tetanus toxoid-containing vaccine and Pertussis vaccine (DTaP or Tdap)
- Hepatitis B vaccine
- Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine (MMR)
- Polio vaccine
- Varicella (Chickenpox) vaccine
Additional vaccines required for middle school and high school
- Tdap vaccine for Grades 6-12
- Meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MenACWY) for Grades 7-12
- Students in Grade 12 need an additional booster dose of MenACWY on or after their 16th birthday
Additional vaccines required for day care and pre-K
- Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine (HiB)
- Pneumococcal Conjugate vaccine (PCV)
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“What makes the coronavirus vaccine different from the many other required vaccines?”
Because they’ve been around for decades and decades with full FDA approval and over that time have become part of normal life for everyone?
The Pfizer vaccine has full FDA approval.
Moderna will get it soon.
It’s unusually fast. Nobody has ever experienced anything like this kind of pace and public pressure to get a new vaccine. I’m glad the uptake has been as deep and quick as it has (although it’s shameful that developed nations are talking about boosters when the rest of the world remains unvaccinated). But we shouldn’t be surprised that there are so many people reticent to get vaccinated. I myself was quite hesitant to get the second shot for my son, although I’m sure many commenters thought that made me “anti-science” or something.
The vaccines were developed relatively quickly but it was all based on many years of prior research.
From wwwdotvetdotcornelldotedu, 4-15-21: Fundamental research in recent years has allowed immunologists to quickly pivot to develop COVID-19 vaccines, said panelist Avery August, Ph.D. ’94, professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor and vice provost for academic affairs.
Under normal circumstances, vaccines take years to develop, but scientists used prior knowledge to develop safe and effective vaccines in just under a year by simultaneously starting all the necessary steps – including animal testing, two phases of human clinical trials and manufacturing.
“We basically threw everything at the vaccine,” August said, adding that COVID-19 vaccines were held to the same rigorous standards as vaccines made under normal timeframes.
All three vaccines approved for use in the U.S. – the two-dose Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and the paused one-dose J&J vaccine – have greatly surpassed the initial bar of 50% efficacy set by the government, said Dr. Gary Koretzky ’78, vice provost for academic integration, professor in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and adjunct professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
“Most importantly, the vaccines are nearly 100% effective in preventing death and severe complications of COVID-19,” Koretzky said. “We’re learning that as people become vaccinated, not only are they protected from getting the disease themselves, but they’re also protected from acquiring the virus and then giving it to others… not 100% [of the time], but really, really well.” That is key to stopping the pandemic, as asymptomatic transmission is one of the most serious problems with this particular virus, Koretzky noted. end quote
For FLERP
Thanks, Joe, I’m aware of all that.
But are you aware of all the other vaccines that kids get today that were not given to kids 20 years ago? Or even 15 years ago? What’s with your “decades and decades” comment?
NYCPP, just FYI, I’m going back to my old policy of not really looking at and definitely not responding to your comments. This was a wise policy, as it reduced the number of stupid, lengthy, pointless exchanges on the blog.
It certainly reduces your need to defend your comments.
many thought that made me anti-science or something
Uh, yeah.
Bob,
I don’t believe FLERP! is correct when he says that all vaccines that children are given today were around for “decades and decades” before they are required.
FLERP! stands by that statement — not that it makes FLERP! anti-science or anything.
1.3 million schoolchildren participated in the 1954 study of the efficacy of the Salk vaccine. It was approved the following year.
Immediately following the government’s licensing of the Salk vaccine, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis contracted with private drug companies for US$9 million worth of vaccine (around $87 million today) – about 90% of the stock. They planned to provide it free to the country’s first and second graders. But just two weeks after the first doses were administered, the Public Health Service reported that six inoculated children had come down with polio.
As the number of such incidents grew, it became clear that some of the shots were causing the disease they were meant to prevent. A single lab had inadvertently released adulterated doses.
After considerable fumbling and outright denial, Surgeon General Leonard Steele first pulled all tainted vaccine off the market. Then, less than a month after the initial inoculations, the U.S. shut down distribution entirely. It wasn’t until the introduction of a new polio vaccine in 1960, created by Albert Sabin, that public trust returned.
https://theconversation.com/the-great-polio-vaccine-mess-and-the-lessons-it-holds-about-federal-coordination-for-todays-covid-19-vaccination-effort-152806
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3c6031cw/entire_text/
The Covid vaccine is not a live virus so nobody can get covid from the shot.
Yes, of course. My points in that comment and in this thread are that: (1) massive vaccine rollouts are not easy and hit bumps in the road, and public trust is not a given; (2) even with a virus like polio, which was far more dangerous to children than Covid, millions — tens of millions — of parents sent their children to school unvaccinated (despite the availability of a vaccine) and unmasked for years; (3) I am unaware of any time in the nation’s history when a vaccine was as widely widely adopted as quickly as the Covid vaccines were, so the notion that we are living in a nation of anti-science numbskulls is not well-founded; (4) I’m also not aware of any time in the nation’s history when a vaccine was made available and then in less than a year was made mandatory for participation in basic functions of human life, such as employment or education; and (5) given all that, it is not surprising that large numbers of Americans are reticent or even hostile to the prospect of Covid vaccination requirements.
Something else is at work in vaccine resistance, FLERP. I heard an interview today of the director of the biggest hospital in Mississippi. She spoke of the large numbers of children hospitalized with the virus. She said that Mississippi prided itself on leading the nation in the proportion of children vaccinated for other infectious diseases, but was near the bottom in the proportion of youngsters vaccinated for COVID. She said that if everyone knew the terrible suffering of those with COVID, everyone would get vaccinated. I also heard a series of interviews where people said they got vaccinated because of the mandates at work, and in a variety of other settings.
I try not to judge people who have a valid concern about the vaccine (unfortunately a growing number have gotten the virus) but there are others who spout nonsense and are taking medicines which are harmful. If they are worried enough about their health to take drugs meant for livestock, they should just get the vaccine.
I took the Salk vaccine and was very happy to be free of the fear of polio.
Oh, c’mon, NYCPSP, don’t you remember how the polio vaccine was used for decades before it became required?
Greg, why don’t you tell us all how long the polio vaccine was available before it became “required”? Do you know?
GregB,
I wasn’t specifically thinking of the polio vaccine.
I was thinking about the more recent vaccines – like the meningococcal and Hepatitis vaccines – that did not seem to be around for “decades and decades” before they were required at schools.
Not to mention, the idea of enacting a new school vaccine mandate when fighting a serious outbreak and especially a global pandemic is not a new one.
At this point, putting forward “arguments” against mask mandates and vaccination is at a minimum extraordinarily irresponsible and dangerous.
NYCPSP, I wasn’t really thinking of the polio vaccine either. I was thinking of how this commentator constantly throws out random single facts to explain complex histories and processes. Or how he demands proof from others but seemingly is never able to provide any himself. But it’s so much easier to make any argument “all about me” while claiming to care about the kids and teachers.
“Decades and decades with full FDA approval” ?? Say what?? There are now requirements for children to have vaccines that were not available when my oldest was a kid.
Can you please make a correction, or are you still standing behind this statement?
And I am old enough to remember when there were mass inoculations — IN SCHOOL! — for kids when there was, ya know, an outbreak — and not even a worldwide pandemic. And doctors and scientists understood that danger even though I don’t recall any time in my childhood when there were simply no more hospital beds for children, period, and any children who got sick were in grave danger.
I don’t understand how any parent can fail to understand the difference between a global pandemic crisis where their own child’s medical treatment for any serious disease is going to be affected, and the past when people might make decisions that affect their health and other people’s but not at a time when the entire medical establishment is overwhelmed. Unless they are so rich and privileged that doctors and nurses will leave their very sick patients and bring special treatment to wherever they live to treat your child. Or make room for them in a special hospital room with round the clock nursing.
There are 2 choices — ration resources so that the rich and privileged know they will always have medical treatment, or work to prevent the need to seriously ration resources in the first place.
I support working to prevent having to seriously ration medical resources in the first place. Which means vaccines and masks.
If you don’t support that, at least recognize what it is you are supporting. Rationing resources. In a pandemic. I’ll give my kid a vaccine and have my kid wear a mask if it reduces the likelihood of that happening. Would you?
Some of the anti-vaxxers claim that the Mnra vaccines are harmful despite the fact that there is no evidence to support that claim. Mnra is a delivery system that may be adapted to fight many different viruses.
The woman behind the vaccines is a Hungarian immigrant. She moved to Philly to work at Temple University. She started her research on the vaccine in 1995 so the science behind the vaccine is hardly new or rushed. She went to work at U Penn where her research went unnoticed, and she actually was furloughed by the university until one of her former male colleagues fully saw the potential of what Katalin Kariko had developed. Kariko had two problems. Her Mnra work was way ahead of the curve, and she was a female scientist often dismissed by male scientists. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/us/katalin-kariko-covid-19-vaccine-scientist-trnd/index.html
What is not said enough is that all of her research was NIH funded. Of course she rightly claims that her lab assistants at U Pen earned more than she did . Now she is a multi millionaire working for BioNtech / Pfizer as an executive.
Had Covid vaccine research been open sourced the world!!!! would have had enough vaccine months ago .
Which still leaves us with the fools who put others at risk.
Don’t ask me what happened there!
Dr Graham et al did the fundamental research at NIH that laid the groundwork for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines. In fact, the US government has a patent on the mRNA process to produce the spike protein that is key for both vaccines. Pfizer has licensed the patent but Moderna has not, which means they are currently infringing the patent (according to legal experts at Co!umbia U) and could be legally required to forfeit all the money they make on their vaccine to the US government. As the group of legal experts at Columbia University has pointed out, this fact could be used as leverage by the US government to “encourage” Moderna to share the vaccine “recipe” with qualified pharmaceutical companies in places like India who could quickly ramp up vaccine production for countries that have received little or no vaccine to date.
The problem so far is that the companies like Pfizer, Moderna and Astrazenaca are not willing to share their information and this is causing a completely unnecessary bottleneck in widespread vaccine production and distribution. The vast majority of the WTO member countries including the US have called for a temporary waiver of patent rights to greatly accelerate vaccine production but just a handful of countries (including UK, Canada and Germany) have been blocking it.
In her opposition to the patent waiver, Angela Merkel has effectively acted as a shill for BioNTech. Perhaps she has stock in the company?
Kariko is a millionaire, to be sure, but she is almost certainly also a billionaire, thanks to US taxpayers like you and me.
I don’t have any problem compensating people appropriately for their hard work and creative contributions, but that only goes so far.
NO ONE deserves to become a billionaire off of work that was publicly funded and that built on key research of countless others, as BioNTech did to produce their mRNA vaccine. As I pointed out above, the key mRNA technology for producing the spike protein without which their vaccine would not even work was actually licensed from the US government.
Laws would have to be changed to ensure that part of the proceeds from seed money can be returned to taxpayers. It would be another way to reduce the deficit or fund social programs
In general, thats true, but in this particular case, no laws would have to be changed or enacted because as I pointed out above, Moderna is currently infringing upon a spike protein technology that is critical to their vaccine and which has been patented by the US government.
In other words, Moderna is violating current patent law.
In patent infringement cases, the infringer can be required to forfeit ALL proceeds to the patent owner, in this case the US government.
That’s not my opinion, but that of legal experts at Co!umbia U who analyzed the case and recommended that Biden use the infringement as leverage on Moderna to share their vaccine recipe with pharmaceutical companies capable of quickly ramping up
One of the problems in the developing world with the current vaccines is the need for refrigeration. Novavax has produced a good traditional vaccine for Covid that does not require low temperature refrigeration, and many developing countries have ordered it. They are having production problems, but they recently signed contracts to distribute Novavax. We need everyone to get the vaccine to be safe.
It has been determined that even the Pfizer vaccine can be stored for up to a month before use at temps that can easily be achieved with ordinary refrigerators (2- 8 degrees Centigrade.
The reason that so many people still have not even received a single dose of a vaccine has little to do with refrigeration and everything to do with profits.
The primary reason a large fraction of the worlds people have not yet got the vaccine is that the companies that developed the vaccines refuse to widely share the technology that would enable the vaccines to be produced in sufficiently large quantities.
A rhetorical question, surely. It seems clear that some, maybe most, Republican politicians, following Trumps lead, decided that Covid-19 denial is a political opportunity not to be squandered even if (or maybe because) it results in sickness and death. Evidence denial in service of power and profit is now their brand, enabled necessarily by voter suppression. If only all Democrats would unite against it!
Trump held one of his rallies in Alabama last night. He actually told the crowd to get the vaccine, and they booed him. There’s no helping the irrational.
It is frustrating to me that Republicans almost always vote as a block while the Democrats cannot get all their ducks in a row. This is a rare opportunity to make positive change, and it is a time for much needed unity.
Even that maniac Alex Jones has turned on Trump for recommending the COVID-19 vaccines. There’s no dealing with crazy and stupid.
One of the news channels featured some of the protesters. After hearing her speak, even if I was an anti-vaxxer, I’d quickly change my mind because I wouldn’t want to be lumped in with idiots like her.
But are we sure the vaccine Trump is advocating isn’t made from household bleach or ground up lizards?
I’d bet the farm (if I had one) that Alex Alex Jones has been vaccinated.
“Evidence denial in service of power and profit is now their brand.” On the nose.
It’s going to become impossible for these parents to attend any public school or really any “school” of any kind, because all schools- even the sainted charters and private schools- demand some compromise for the good of the larger school community.
It’s consumer behavior and the ed reform “movement” has absolutely encouraged and promoted it.
They’re wrong. Schools are not just “delivery systems” and they’re not Uber and they’re not food trucks. They’re not a business at all.
Once you take the “public” out of “public education” this is what you’re left with- angry customers, because of course the school can’t meet the demands of each and every parent at any given time. The concept is wrong.
It’s such a bad deal. People really want to exchange a public institution for a set of purchase options? They understand there’s no duty in the “educational services” approach, right? Privatized schools won’t have to accomodate them at all.
And the absolute INCOHERENCE that runs through the whole thing.
Ed reformers are now in the position of supporting the anti-vacc and anti-mask parents while still insisting each and every public school student should be subject to a long list of mandates that they support.
They’re harshly policing every PUBLIC school while lobbying for unregulated public funding of any private entity that claims to offer some educational service.
Go read the ed reform echo chamber on how public schools must be “transparent” on covid funding outlays. They don’t apply ANY of these demands to the privatized systems they’re all pushing. One section of the echo chamber will be furiously lobbying to expand public funding of unregulated private entities and then the next day another section of the echo chamber will issue a damning indictment of a public system because the public system hasn’t updated their website with accounting totals. It’s lunacy.
The voucher push in ed reform gave the game away, as far as I’m concerned.
Once the echo chamber all got on board with vouchers their policing of public schools became ridiculous and utterly hypocritical. No public school system should accept demands from these people- their vision of education is incompatible with “public”.
It can only go one way from here, and that’s further and further away from any notion of “public”. I think they have to get rid of compulsory schooling. It makes no sense in their free market vision. Talk about an infringement of parental rights! Truancy is by definition disallowed under this ideology.
I hope they enjoy reaping the whirlwind they’ve created. It won’t do a single positive thing for any public school or public school student in the country but then that shouldn’t surprise anyone- it was never about our students.
Libertarians are against both compulsory education and child labor laws.
Libertarians are against anything that benefits anyone other than themselves.
What makes the coronavirus vaccine different from the many other required vaccines?
These other vaccines were not politicized by a profoundly stupid and ignorant president with a profoundly stupid and ignorant following.
Who is responsible for all these deaths among the unvaccinated?
Trump is. And everyone who echoed him.
Here’s an ed reform group sternly lecturing public schools on what “public” means:
https://www.crpe.org/thelens/division-or-detente
These same people have been telling the public for the last twenty years that there’s no difference at all between “public” and “publicly funded” while a small minority tried to tell them that there WAS in fact a difference.
They wanted free market, privatized education where there’s no collective duty of any kind. Well, they got it. It’s incompatible with public systems but anyone who said that was immediately shouted down as not “disruptive” and “innovative” enough, or smeared as wholly self interested.
The engineers are unhappy with the product they created. They belatedly realize it isn’t going to work but instead of looking to their “movement” itself, they issue a lecture to the public schools who knew it along.
Public schools need to break out of this echo chamber. They will not survive this ideological approach. These are two competing visions of public education and the ed reform vision cannot include (truly) public schools.
There are many in Tennessee who oppose the vaccination laws. They are not all unmoored fools. I feel they are incorrect, but they do express understandable reactions in light of the unwillingness of anyone to accept responsibility for any side effects of the vaccine. When we decided that those who developed vaccines would be rewarded handsomely, but would not be responsible for any negative events, we set up a system that does not want to know when the vaccines cause problems.
I am a vaccination person. When all this covid stuff is over, I intend to get a shingles vaccine. That said, we should be looking much harder for any potential problems and assuring people we are going to see them through both covid and any problems we have with our vaccines.
Everyone over age 60 should get the shingles vaccine. I did. It is two doses and a little arm soreness. I watched my father suffer with shingles while he had cancer. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
Roy, it’s also time to get a flu vaccine
Indeed! I have always felt that my flu vaccine lessened the effect of the common cold to which I have always been excessively exposed as a teacher.
You know I often agree with you and value your views, but the first paragraph above is quite troubling for me. First, I would argue that they very much are “all unmoored fools.” The moment they make it political or think their unreasoned (or agenda-driven) doubt is more authoritative than health professionals and scientists then it seems to me “unmoored fools” is the perfect description. But for them we would be on the obvious road to recovery. But for them people will needlessly die and suffer of other diseases and accidents because the “reasoning” of these “unmoored fools.” We might well have seen the end of this pandemic and started to prepare for the next ones…but for these “unmoored fools.”
Second, the idea that “we set up a system that does not want to know when the vaccines cause problems” is just not correct. Everyone who knows anything about medicine knows that even the best drug ever made will have unexpected side effects on some, some catastrophic. Every year a handful of people die due to reactions to aspirin. It is rare, but it happens and is generally unpredictable. That’s why we have a National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. We have many scientists and physicians around the world who are working to make vaccines and medicines safer. To say that the “system…does not want to know” borders on conspiracy theory fantasies that breeds “unmoored fools.” I have had it with their selfish, evil behavior and it’s time we quit letting them off the hook.
I realize that there are systems in place that seek to mitigate negative effects of vaccines. What I meant about the “system that does not want to know” is that the private entities that produce drugs are not much more regulated than any other private entity whose business is to make money. We do not watchdog enough for me in general.
Surely you know that I am not anti-vax. That said, a public that has experienced everything from Three Mile Island to Thalidomide (sp?) is not entirely unmoored and foolish to have reservations about a private production of some consumer item in the climate of de-regulation we have experienced during the last 40 years.
To mitigate this distrust, we need to see the regulation of substance in a very personal way. Someone should be crawling all over society to see if things are going OK. We should all know someone who has been looking into the air in our schools as well as the vaccines in our blood to make us as safe as science will allow.
No breaks for the crowd made up of bricks that have fallen from the load. No breaks for the government that must provide for all its citizens.
Thank, Roy. That explanation was a relief and I get it. You are quite right about your Pharma example. They (and we) spend billions in research, drug approval, marketing, and adhering to regulations, but there is no formal, funded mechanism that studies what happens to drugs after they’ve been used a while. This is changing, but mostly outside of government, and it is slow and inadequate.
The thalidomide example is particularly relevant. Linking fetal deformities it caused, mostly in Germany, many in Britain, to the drug led to the founding of the FDA and its modern day mission. And it’s a great example of a good drug used wrongly. In the late 1990s, it was the first drug to confirm a controversial theory of tumor nourishment and it has spawned a family tree of drugs that, in combination with other drugs, has made a once deadly form of cancer into a chronic one for more than half of those diagnosed.
But I will used “unmoored fools” in casual conversation from now on. That’s as golden and accurate as it gets in this context. In the field I work in, not a single medical expert advises against the vaccine. Not one. The only caveat is timing. For some patients who are undergoing certain procedures or taking drugs that suppress the body’s immune response, it calls for delay, not denial of vaccine. And while they wait, the unmoored fools around them put their lives at real risk. Or if that person needs urgent medical care, those unmoored fools are forcing delays that are also potentially deadly or debilitating.
“move the goal posts and prattle all they want to, but the word “vaccine” means to the people that they will be protected and spread will diminish to nearly nothing as a result of widespread vaccination, as with polio and smallpox.”
“Blame Bubba” doesn’t change the current “jab” into a
sterlising vaccine (traditional required vacs listed above).
Damning the “anti-vaxxer” doesn’t make the current “jab”
more effective at stopping transmission, or end the
viral evolution (mutation), that has actually accelerated.
“What happens to the credibility of scientists, doctors, and officials as it become increasingly obvious that the “blame Bubba” for rising case counts doesn’t cut it, as more and more people know of someone or even themselves become Covid positive despite being fully vaccinated?”
Do you think the full approval to the BioNTech/Pfizer jab,
increases the likelthood of a more effective STERLIZING vaccine,to be developed and approved?
I’m NOT an anti-vaxxer! I’m anti “mission accomplished”
with a magic-bullet jab that doesn’t function as the
sterlizing jabs of the past.
I’m not understanding your reference to sterilizing vaccines.The needles better be sterile, the vaccines must be made under sterile conditions……..but the vaccines don’t sterilize the virus, as far as I know. Would a better term be immobilizing the virus, kicking the sh*t out of the virus?
Sterilizing or not – this is not a binary concept; different vaccines provide none, some, or total sterilizing immunity. Vaccines for smallpox and measles confer sterilizing immunity. Polio vaccines are of two types (one sterilizes immunity [except in rare cases], the other doesn’t). The vaccine used depends on the degree to which the ‘wild’ virus has been stamped out in a country. Rotavirus, Pertussis, and Diphtheria vaccines confer some sterilizing immunity. The vaccines for flu and hepatitis B do not provide any sterilizing immunity.
Sterilizing immunity is the ultimate goal of most vaccine development. So far we’ve got the non-sterilizing type, which reduces the spread, and sharply diminishes ICU treatment and mortality– and it’s proceeding through normal channels to FDA approval. It doesn’t follow that interrupting the approval process would slow research into a sterilizing version. If such a thing is scientifically possible, there are strong motivations to pursue (both public health and $$-wise).
A Supreme Court decision, Jacobson v Massachusetts (1905), has been quoted by courts over 60 times, as recently as this month!! support the governmental authority to require vaccinations
All those required vaccines predated Trump and the Republican Party being infected with insanity through Trump’s malignant narcissism and total corruption.
I remember getting a sugar cube in the auditorium of my elementary school to protect against some disease or other. Did parents have to sign consent forms or did they just vaccinate children as needed?
Personally, I think they should vaccinate the kids for Covid in the schools (with permission). What a relief it would be for many parents/grandparents to know their children are safe.
Looking at my childhood vaccination card, my sisters and I – ages 3 to 9 – received 15 vaccinations in a 3 month period in preparation for.moving abroad. If a 3-year-old can do all that, what are millions of adults whining about?! Suck it up for humanity and get the shot.