SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
About a Third of Medical Vaccine Exemptions in San Diego Came From one Doctor:
She wrote 141 exemptions since 2015. The second highest number was 26.
A single San Diego doctor wrote nearly a third of the area’s medical vaccination exemptions since 2015, according to an investigation by the local nonprofit news organization Voice of San Diego.
[...]Medical vaccination exemptions are intended for the relatively few people who have medical conditions that prevent them from receiving vaccines safely. That includes people who are on long-term immunosuppressive therapy or those who are immunocompromised, such as those with HIV or those who have had severe, life-threatening allergic reactions (e.g. anaphylaxis) to previous immunizations. Such patients typically receive medical exemptions incidentally during their medical care. But some doctors are providing evaluations specifically to determine if a patient qualifies for an exemption and granting exemptions using criteria not based on medical evidence. Some doctors are even charging fees for these questionable exemption evaluations—including the doctor in San Diego, Tara Zandvliet.
[...]Zandvliet charges $180 for the evaluation, and her practice does not accept insurance.
Since 2015, Zandvliet has issued 141 of the 486 total medical exemptions granted in the San Diego Unified School District. After Zandvliet, the second highest number of medical exemptions granted by a single doctor was 26. The Voice of San Diego noted that Zandvliet’s practice is listed on several websites as being friendly to anti-vaccine parents.
I would not trust such a doctor to have only my best interests at heart.
If my paying a fee can persuade the doctor to write my desired exemption, then it stands to reason that an incentive from, say, a "big pharma" representative could induce the doctor to prescribe medications for me that are either questionably warranted or for which there are better or less expensive alternatives.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 24 2019, @09:46PM (2 children)
The anti-vaxxers are to blame for why our vaccines didn't eradicate the virus, you need to pay us into perpetuity since we altered the epidemology of the disease, and a giant epidemic is on its way anyway since the vaccines clearly are not effective enough.
(Score: 2, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 24 2019, @11:20PM (1 child)
If you look at, how many people are in San Diego. And how many in Tijuana. It's millions of people, over 3 million. Lot of "people." 141, not a lot of "people." But, it's not 141 "people," it's 141 Exemptions. And possibly, one "person" may need many exemptions. Saying, oh you're exempt from the chicken pox. You're exempt from the measles. Exempt from the tetanus. On and on -- it never ends. Maybe it's 141 "people," I don't know. If it was, wouldn't they say so? They say, the H.I.V., very good reason for an exemption, right? And I'm thinking, in those millions of people, there have got to be 486, or even more, that have the H.I.V. New York, the 80s, that was a very big thing. And it seemed like everybody who was anybody had it. I was already very rich and very famous, but I've been very lucky in that regard. Vietnam, we had lottery numbers and mine, fortunately was very high. Trust me, I wasn't a fan of the Vietnam War. Expensive mistake and so many lives lost. On both sides!!!
(Score: 2, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 24 2019, @11:31PM
(cont) By the way, if you do math. And you have over 3 million people. Versus, they say 486 exemptions. Can we call it 486 people? Let's say it's people, maybe it's not but we can call it that. You do the percent, it's not a lot. And it's a lot less than 1%, it's more like 0.01%. So tiny. So tiny. And the shots, those aren't 100%. They're not 99.99%. And, they're not even 99%. They're less. They wear off, or they never worked in the first place. You said it yourself -- "not effective enough." That's a much bigger problem. But you won't hear about it from the bought and paid for Fake News M.S.M. And I think a big part of the "not effective enough" is, the doctors do so many shots at once. Tiny children are not horses. One vaccine at a time, over time!!!