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Anti-Vaxxers Defeated: NY Bans Exemptions as Doctors Vote to Step up Fight:
Anti-vaccine advocates received a blow in New York Thursday as state lawmakers banned non-medical exemptions based on religious beliefs—and there may be more blows coming.
Also on Thursday, the American Medical Association adopted a new policy to step up its fight against such non-medical exemptions. The AMA, the country's largest physicians' group and one of the largest spenders on lobbying, has always strongly support pediatric vaccination and opposed non-medical exemptions. But under the new policy changes, the association will now "actively advocate" for states to eliminate any laws that allow for non-medical exemptions.
"As evident from the measles outbreaks currently impacting communities in several states, when individuals are not immunized as a matter of personal preference or misinformation, they put themselves and others at risk of disease," AMA Board Member E. Scott Ferguson, M.D. said in a statement. "The AMA strongly supports efforts to eliminate non-medical exemptions from immunization, and we will continue to actively urge policymakers to do so."
The religious exemption ban in New York comes at a critical time. The state is at the forefront of a nationwide resurgence of measles, with active outbreaks that have sickened hundreds and splintered into other states.
"This administration has taken aggressive action to contain the measles outbreak, but given its scale, additional steps are needed to end this public health crisis," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement after signing the ban on religious exemptions. "While I understand and respect freedom of religion, our first job is to protect the public health, and by signing this measure into law, we will help prevent further transmissions and stop this outbreak right in its tracks."
Sudden outbreak of common sense?
(Score: -1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday June 17 2019, @03:16AM (10 children)
HIV -- otherwise known as AIDS -- is a disaster. And it really did a number on New York. There's a pill for HIV. For not getting HIV. And, for not passing it on. And by the way, I talked to Gilead Sciences. Who make that one. And I made a magnificent deal. So 200,000 people can get that pill FOR FREE. ZERO DOLLARS!! foxbusiness.com/healthcare/trump-strikes-big-hiv-drug-deal-to-knockout-virus [foxbusiness.com]
What has Andrew Cuomo done for the health of the people of New York? I'll tell you what. He put the blue, and gold tiles in the Queens Midtown Tunnel. Instead of the plain white tiles they wanted to put in. Thank you, Andrew!!
(Score: -1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday June 17 2019, @03:24AM (3 children)
(cont) Those Colored tiles cost $20 million or even $30 million. Lot of money because White wasn't good enough for Andrew.
Hepatitis C, there's no vaccine, that's so true. But, there are pills that cure it. 95% of the time, they cure it. It's not a sure thing but it's pretty good, right? And those pills cost about $100,000. Can you work out how many times that goes into $30 million? I'll work it out for you, it's 300 times. 300 people. And 95% would be cured, that's 285 people. Andrew doesn't care about health. He's just another corrupt Dem politician!!!!
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Monday June 17 2019, @03:57AM (2 children)
You should focus on your funny parodies of DT. These sound too much like something he'd actually post, and doesn't contain any of the satire/humor I look for in your earlier posts.
In other words, I like your old stuff better than your new stuff.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 17 2019, @04:15PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 17 2019, @09:14PM
Make realDonaldTrump Great Again?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday June 17 2019, @04:22AM (5 children)
That is one post where you have stepped over the boarder into outright lying.
There is no "pill" to avoid or suppress HIV, unless you're talking about cyanide, or something similar. HIV is a virus that is wildly variable, and medicines that work on one variety are useless against some other. And it mutates so rapidly that if you have it, you probably have thousands of varieties, so a drug cocktail is the most common approach. Even then, the effect usually wears of as new varieties appear that can sidestep ALL of the drugs.
OTOH, there do seem to be approaches that suppress active forms. So with proper treatment continued over the years, and adjusted on an as needed basis, you'll probably die of something else first.
I may be overstating my case, as it's been years since I looked into the matter, but that's the way the situation was a few years ago, and I doubt that it's changed. Possibly the suppressor drugs have gotten more effective, but I'm rather sure I would have heard if there were an actual cure.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2, Informative) by NotSanguine on Monday June 17 2019, @04:58AM (4 children)
Just to clarify, it was unclear what trolling boy was talking about (it often is), but my point was int reply to JoeMerchant's [soylentnews.org] comparison of HIV *infection* (not treatment or cure) with measles infections.
As I pointed out, there is no *vaccine* against HIV. There are certainly treatments that can keep the virus at bay. Apparently, there are also treatments that have (in two cases) put patients into "sustained remission" [statnews.com].
I'm not an AIDS researcher or an epidemiologist, just a somewhat informed layperson, so YMMV.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday June 17 2019, @04:08PM (3 children)
Yeah, but two cases isn't very remarkable. There were at least two cases that went into remission without any treatment at all. (Of course, that was out of a much larger sample size, but...)
I'm also a bit skeptical about how long those "sustained remission" cases will remain so. IIUC what they are saying is not that they've cleared the virus, but rather that it's currently hiding. And in any case that's no "just a pill", so he's a fucking liar.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday June 17 2019, @04:42PM (2 children)
I was clarifying *my* statement, [soylentnews.org] which was that no *vaccine* for HIV exists.
As to the "sustained remission" cases, those are extreme outliers, and those folks have *not* been cured (cf. remission [wikipedia.org]).
I do know that there is a cocktail of drugs referred to as Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) [nih.gov]:
Why loose your venom on me? I didn't defend the post to which you replied.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday June 17 2019, @07:35PM (1 child)
It wasn't directed at you. Sorry if you read it that way. (Did I post under the wrong parent?)
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(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday June 17 2019, @07:42PM
No worries. It's all good.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr