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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: 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?)
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, @07:42PM
No worries. It's all good.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr