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To: Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, House Energy and Commerce Committee
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
Re: Statement federal vaccine mandates
Feb. 26, 2019
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) strongly opposes federal interference in medical decisions, including mandated vaccines. After being fully informed of the risks and benefits of a medical procedure, patients have the right to reject or accept that procedure. The regulation of medical practice is a state function, not a federal one. Governmental preemption of patients’ or parents’ decisions about accepting drugs or other medical interventions is a serious intrusion into individual liberty, autonomy, and parental decisions about child-rearing.
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Vaccines are necessarily risky, as recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court and by Congress. The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid some $4 billion in damages, and high hurdles must be surmounted to collect compensation. The damage may be so devastating that most people would prefer restored function to a multimillion-dollar damage award.
The smallpox vaccine is so dangerous that you can’t get it now, despite the weaponization of smallpox. Rabies vaccine is given only after a suspected exposure or to high-risk persons such as veterinarians. The whole-cell pertussis vaccine was withdrawn from the U.S. market, a decade later than from the Japanese market, because of reports of severe permanent brain damage. The acellular vaccine that replaced it is evidently safer, though somewhat less effective.
The risk: benefit ratio varies with the frequency and severity of disease, vaccine safety, and individual patient factors. These must be evaluated by patient and physician, not imposed by a government agency.
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AAPS believes that liberty rights are unalienable. Patients and parents have the right to refuse vaccination, although potentially contagious persons can be restricted in their movements (e.g. as with Ebola), as needed to protect others against a clear and present danger. Unvaccinated persons with no exposure to a disease and no evidence of a disease are not a clear or present danger.
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originally posted by: LookingAtMars
a reply to: rickymouse
You are on a cytokine storm roll tonight
originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
the AAPS = wingnuts . you know this - right ?
originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
the AAPS = wingnuts . you know this - right ?
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: rickymouse
I haven't gotten the flu in a long time either. But I do take a lot of vitamin C and other vitamins.
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: rickymouse
I haven't gotten the flu in a long time either. But I do take a lot of vitamin C and other vitamins.
Once you get the flu, you get immunity to it for life usually. Your immune system knows how to fight it even if it mutates a little bit.
The association is generally recognized as politically conservative or ultra-conservative, and its publication advocates a range of scientifically discredited hypotheses, including the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS, that being gay reduces life expectancy, that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and that there is a causal relationship between vaccines and autism.
Once you get the flu, you get immunity to it for life usually. Your immune system knows how to fight it even if it mutates a little bit.