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You can still get medical exemptions for extreme cases, but legally, religious exemptions are no more. The law that was shot down would have allowed private and parochial schools to set their own standards for what qualified as an exemption.

With this law being shot down, there are now five states that do not allow religious exemptions for vaccinations.

https://westvirginiawatch.com/2025/03/24/west-virginia-house-rejects-vaccine-exemption-bill-a-priority-for-morrisey/

Meanwhile, in Kansas, they now have ten confirmed cases with others under observation. In all cases, the children - ranging from birth to 17 years old - were un-vaccinated or under-vaccinated, having had one of the two doses required. The cases span three counties and are the first measles cases in the last seven years. The three counties are all in the southwest corner of the state, closest to where the outbreak in Texas is taking place.

Currently, the Kansas cases have not required hospitalization and the only fatalities have been the one child in Texas, aged 4, and the adult in New Mexico.

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/healthcare/2025/03/24/kansas-measles-cases-are-unvaccinated-and-under-vaxxed-children/82636954007/

I don't have a link handy, but the parents of the child who died of measle: they remain anti-vax because 'their four other children haven't caught measles'. Play lethal games, win lethal prizes. So they're happy their 4 y/o child has 'gone to the lord'? *SMH* Okay, whatevs. I wonder what the 4 y/o thought about it while she was dying.

In Texas, an unvaccinated school-aged child has died of a vaccine-preventable disease in the middle of a growing outbreak.

Thank you, Mister Illustrious Anti-Vaxxer Robert Fucking Kennedy Junior Mint. Add one to your tally.

At least 124 people are sick in Texas, 18 or more hospitalized, and this county shares the border with New Mexico, where at least nine are sick. And while the affected county is not contiguous with my area, we have at least one case in my county.

Fucking anti-vaxxers.

From the article: "It is the first death in the mushrooming outbreak in Texas, and it marks the first measles death in the country since 2015, when a woman with underlying health conditions in Washington state died amid an outbreak. The death highlighted the importance of maintaining high community vaccination rates to prevent the spread of the extremely infectious disease to vulnerable people. Prior to that, the US hadn't recorded a measles death since 2003.

In 2000, the US declared measles to be eliminated, meaning it no longer continuously spreads in the US. Outbreaks that occur have been limited and are generally sparked by cases linked to international travel. In the decade before the measles vaccine became available in 1963, it's estimated that 3 million to 4 million people were infected each year, leading to 48,000 hospitalizations, 1,000 cases of encephalitis (swelling of the brain), and 400 to 500 deaths annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

A disease that had largely been eliminated. One death in over twenty years until now. It's not going to be the last, and it's going to continue to grow, especially in the People's Republic of Texas. And it'll grow in New Mexico, because the rural areas have lot of people just as obstinately stupid and anti-vax as Texans.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/unvaccinated-school-aged-child-dies-of-measles-in-texas-amid-growing-outbreak/

*sigh*

In a verbal communication, the Louisiana Health Department has stopped promoting vaccines for flu, covid, and mpox. It is hosting no clinics. It is still supposedly promoting childhood vaccines.

Department spokesman "Emma Herrock did not deny the claim or dispute any of the outlets' [NPR] reporting. Instead, Herrock provided a statement confirming that the department's policy had shifted, specifically, it moved "away from one-size-fits-all paternalistic guidance" and to the stance that "immunization for any vaccine ... are an individual’s personal choice." Discussions and decisions about vaccines should be between an individual and their health provider, the statement read."

Even the Dept of Health clinics are not allowed to advertise the fact in their own clinics! that they offer vaccinations!

Many employees are questioning just what is the point of working there.

December 20 Ars Technica article:
https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/louisiana-bars-health-dept-from-promoting-flu-covid-mpox-vaccines-report/

On December 23, Ars reported that Louisiana is at the lowest of the three top stages for reported influenza-like illnesses. Oregon is the only other state at this level. The article also shows a map of the USA including territories and their reported levels as of the week ending December 14.

The scale has 13 stages, three levels (11-13) classed at Very High, which is where Louisiana and Oregon are at 11. From the article: "Louisiana is at the first of three "Very High" levels. Oregon is the only other state to have reached this level. The rest of the country spans the scale, with 13 jurisdictions at "High," including New York City and Washington, DC. There are 11 at "Moderate," 10 at "Low," and 19 at "Minimal."

A comment in this article said the following:
Tangentially, Louisiana #40 in K-12 and # 49 in higher education
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/flu-surges-in-louisiana-as-health-department-barred-from-promoting-flu-shots/

Former doctor Sherri Tenpenny in Ohio made headlines a couple of years ago when she claimed that vaccines contained metallic components and some more insanely more outrageous claims that some cities were liquefying corpses and pouring them into municipal water supplies. She's become quite famous in the Alex Jones crowd.

Her fame did not impress the Ohio State Medical Board who, after receiving over 350 complaints, suspended her medical license indefinitely. She refused interviews with investigators and requests to come in and speak with the board and explain her points. The Board said they had no choice, not that I blame them in the least. They are bound to investigate complaints, and when they receive so many, the accused doctor had better have a darn good explanation!

One response she sent to a state lawmaker who invited her to testify was "We’re on to something here… and the LOUDER they scream, the more they are trying to hide. I stand by everything I said today. I put out FACTS and HYPOTHESIS (points to ponder)."

Now that the head-shaking has subsided a bit, here's a portion of Wikipedia's entry defining the word Hypothesis: "A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. Scientists generally base scientific hypotheses on previous observations that cannot satisfactorily be explained with the available scientific theories."

A proposed explanation, which would require statements of observation, etc. Not 'points to ponder'. That's nothing more than soundbites.

The final paragraph in the article, and what will probably be the final word in her career as a medical professional: "Tenpenny's license is now suspended, and the board issued her a civil fine of $3,000. To get her license back, she would have to reapply, pay the fine, comply with the investigation, and submit a written statement certifying compliance. If more than two years pass in the meantime, the board may also require her to provide additional evidence of "her fitness to resume practice."

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/ohio-doc-who-said-vaccines-magnetized-people-loses-medical-license/

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Entries tagged with vaccine skepticism

West Virginia House of Delegates cancels religious exemptions for shirking vaccines!

First measles death in the USA in a decade

Louisiana: come for the gumbo, stay for the flu and Covid!

"Vaccines Magnetize People" doctor loses license indefinitely

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