Medical Doctors Outraged – Vaccine Exemption Under Attack

Vaccinations and Medical Exceptions – Having a Choice May No Longer Be an Option SB 276

SB 276 is attacking the same medical exemptions written by California-licensed physicians that were promised protection by legislators under existing law SB 277. This new bill would deny thousands of California children with vaccine injuries their promised protection through medical exemptions by restricting language to only include anaphylaxis or near-death. Children who experience seizures, encephalitis, allergic reactions, gastrointestinal damage, and autoimmune disorders will not be protected by our state from further medical damage.

Only 0.7% percent of California schoolchildren are using a permanent medical exemption to safeguard them from injury through state-mandated vaccination. Vaccine compromised children and their at-risk siblings who previously used a PBE for school entry are now forced to use M.E.s, resulting in the change from 0.2%-0.7%. These children have a fundamental right to be medically protected from harm without losing their Constitutionally-protected right to a public or private education.

The recent 2019 whooping cough outbreak in Los Angeles County involves 100% vaccinated individuals. 90 out of 90 cases in the county were fully vaccinated and still contracted pertussis and spread pertussis to others2. The two high school campuses where the outbreak began have a combined 98.6% vaccination rate among 1600 students — none of the 18 students with medical exemptions caught the illness.

Vaccine injuries are not rare, and vaccines are guaranteed to cause harm to some children—in fact, vaccines are labeled by the U.S. Supreme Court as “unavoidably unsafe.” According to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), more than 35,000 reports of vaccine reactions are reported every single year in the U.S.—events ranging from swelling to seizures, hospitalization, permanent disability and death4. Additionally, it is estimated only around 1% of adverse reactions are ever reported, and doctors are not encouraged to admit, diagnose, or report vaccine injuries. Side effects are not “one in a million”– that refers to only anaphylactic shock. Seizures can happen in 1 in 660 doses of certain vaccines, 1 in 250 for siblings of a child with a previous seizure, and seizures caused by vaccination can cause lifelong epilepsy in children6. The truth is vaccine reactions encompass DOZENS of specific conditions and injuries — epileptic seizures, brain inflammation, neurological disability, intestinal damage, onset of severe allergies, loss of previously acquired skills, etc. These are listed by manufacturers of the vaccines in the package inserts, but NONE are considered “contraindications” by the CDC. All vaccine-injured children (and their siblings), are at an increased risk for permanent disability and should therefore be protected by California law.

California outbreaks of communicable disease like pertussis, measles, and mumps are happening as a result of waning immunity, or “secondary vaccine failure.” Vaccination does not create immunity in everyone (primary vaccine failure), and unlike natural immunity, vaccineinduced immunity does not last indefinitely (secondary vaccine failure). As a result, even 100% vaccination compliance will NEVER stop the spread of these diseases, and children with medical exemptions are not to blame for disease outbreaks in our state or in the country.

▪ In 2017, half of CA measles cases were adults, 33% of total cases were vaccinated. 7
▪ In 2017, 95% of CA pediatric pertussis cases had been vaccinated.
▪ In 2016, 93% of CA pediatric pertussis cases were vaccinated. 8
▪ In 2015, 62% of CA measles cases were adults, 58% of total cases were vaccinated.9
▪ In 2015, 85% of CA mumps cases were vaccinated.
▪ In 2015, 92% of pediatric pertussis cases were vaccinated.
▪ In 2014, 53% of CA measles cases were adults, 48% of total cases were vaccinated.10
▪ In 2014, 95% of CA pediatric pertussis cases were vaccinated.
▪ In 2013, 61% of CA measles cases were adults, 33% of total cases were vaccinated.11

In 2014, the author of AB 2109 said 150,000 licensed healthcare practitioners would easily be able to sign personal belief exemptions for parents, opting out of even 1 dose of vaccines, for their child to go to public or private school in California. Two years later, with SB 277, authors completely removed the right to opt out of even 1 dose of vaccines for children to go to public or private school. 277 was passed ONLY because authors promised fellow legislators in amendments that medical exemptions would be protected, they would be at the discretion of the licensed doctor, the state would “not go after doctors” who wrote them, exemptions would not be restricted to CDC contraindications, and family history could be taken into consideration when qualifying. SB 276 completely removes everything that has been promised to California parents and other state representatives over the past 4 years and undermines citizens’ trust in our elected representatives.

In 1986, liability was removed for vaccine manufacturers by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, which shields the companies completely from being held accountable for any injury or death. To date, there has been over 4 BILLION dollars paid out from a tax on each vaccine through a federal compensation program due to vaccine injuries12 – children ARE being harmed, and there is no way to tell which children it will be ahead of time. Medical exemptions are CRUCIAL to protecting children in our state from permanent damage and injury.

The CDC now recommends 69 doses of 16 vaccines for every American child. The vaccine schedule has tripled since 1985 and doubled since 2000. The combined schedule has NEVER been tested for safety. The Institute of Medicine states in their 2013 study on vaccine safety, “Studies designed to examine the long-term effects of the cumulative number of vaccines or other aspects of the immunization schedule have not been conducted.”

Doctors who treat families of children with vaccine injury know the complex medical and family history of each child best. An arbitrary health official, who has never even met the child, cannot possibly have enough background or knowledge of the particular case to decide whether a medical exemption is necessary or valid for that family. Vaccination is a complex medical intervention — one that requires thorough and extensive knowledge on specific vaccine ingredients, immune response, and the potential for harm based on the genetic susceptibility, current health status, and family history of the child (as specified in SB 277).

PLEASE OPPOSE SB 276

STEP ONE: Download the Oppose CA 276 – Legislator Packet (Contact our office and we will email you the packet) 

STEP TWO: Find your legislators HERE

Locate both your Senator and Assembly person and CALL and ask to  make an appointment. Check to see where they are in the community, events and coffee talks, so you can make your voice as a constituent known. YOUR STORY MATTERS.

Get familiar with this packet and all of the information in it. Go through the source links and familiarize yourself with that data as well.  DO NOT STAY SILENT IN YOUR COMMUNITY, open up conversations in a heart to heart way to let others know how your family is being negatively affected by this type of policy. Invite friends and family ACROSS THE STATE to join in and contact their legislators as well on your behalf. 

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Yours for Better Health, Dr. Shapero
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