NVIC e-news
"If AB 16, and
companion bills SB 533
and SB 676 are enacted,
the following mandatory
vaccine schedule will be
imposed on every child
from birth to 12 years
old in
California
beginning on July 1,
2008. Every year
thereafter, all new
vaccines recommended by
ACIP will be routinely
added as well, with no
limit on the number of
new vaccines that can be
added at one time. With
over 300 new vaccines
currently in
development, there will
be no end to the
madness. If AB 16 and
the others become law,
in less then one year
children in California
will be receiving 14
more shots then they are
receiving today. "
- Rick Rollens
Barbara Loe Fisher
Commentary:
California is on its
way to becoming the
first state to mandate
Merck's GARDASIL vaccine
for all 11 year old
girls.
In a July 5 NVIC E-News,
we reported that the
California legislators,
who were sponsors of the
failed HPV vaccine
mandate earlier this
year, were working with
drug companies and
doctors to make sure the
public is never able to
stop a new vaccine
mandate again. They are
sponsoring three bills
that would re- write
California public health
law and make sure every
vaccine marketed by
Merck and other drug
companies that is
recommended by federal
health officials now and
in the future would be
automatically mandated
despite any public
opposition. The original
versions of the bills
have been amended in the
last few days to
eliminate the five year
waiting period after a
new vaccine has been
licensed by the FDA and
make ALL existing and
new vaccines, including
Merck's GARDASIL,
recommended by the CDC
automatically mandated
by July 1, 2008.
Merck has been very busy
in the state of
California.
With heavy lobbying by
drug company lobbyists
making and selling
vaccines, together with
medical organization
lobbyists whose
physician members profit
from administering
vaccines in their
offices, Representative
Ed Hernandez, an
optometrist (D-West
Covina) and Senators
Mark Ridley-Thomas
(D-26th District) and
Leland Yee, Ph.D., a
psychologist (D-San
Franciso/San Mateo) are
the three politicians
most responsible for
helping drug companies
and doctors ram three
pieces of legislation
(AB 16, SB 533 and SB
676) through the
California legislature.
Tomorrow, July 11,
members of the Senate
Health Committee are
scheduled to vote on AB
16, including Senators
Ridley-Thomas and Leland
Yee. If AB16 or
companion bills SB 533
and SB 676 are enacted,
all 11 year old girls in
California will be
mandated to use GARDASIL
beginning in July 2008
and all children will be
required to use every
other vaccine the CDC
has ever endorsed.
Following is a list of
members and email links
of the Senate Health
Committee members, whose
vote tomorrow could hand
over power to mandate
new vaccines to one
unelected Public Health
Officer employed by the
state, who takes
direction from unelected
federal public health
employees in Atlanta. br>
Click on their names to
register YOUR vote.
Senator Sheila Kuehl
(Chair)
Senator Samuel Aanestad
(Vice Chair)
Senator Elaine Alquist
Senator Gilbert Cedillo
Senator Dave Cox
Senator Abel Maldonado
Senator Gloria Negrete
McLeod
Senator Mark
Ridley-Thomas
Senator Darrell
Steinberg
Senator Mark Wyland
Senator Leland Yee
Click here to contact AB
16 sponsor Assemblyman
Ed Hernandez, O.D.
(D-57th District):
Click here to contact SB
676 sponsor Senator Mark
Ridley- Thomas, Ph.D.
(D-26th District):
"Click here to contact
SB 533 sponsor Senator
Leland Yee, Ph.D. (D-San
Francisco/San Mateo):
The CDC currently
recommends children get
49 doses of 14 vaccines
by age six. This is
double the numbers of
vaccines the government
"recommended" 25 years
ago. If AB 16 or one of
the two other companion
bills become law, the
numbers of vaccines
California children are
required to get could
double or triple within
the next decade and
there will be nothing
parents can do about it.
Following is a list of
vaccines the CDC says
all children should get
and when they should get
them:
Birth
Hepatitis B
2 months old
diphtheria
tetanus
pertussis
HIB
polio
pneumococcal
rotavirus
hepatitis B
4 months old
diphtheria
tetanus
pertussis
HIB
polio
pneumococcal
rotavirus
6 months old
diphtheria
tetanus
pertussis
HIB
pneumococcal
rotavirus
hepatitis B
influenza
12-18 months old
diphtheria
tetanus
pertussis
HIB
polio
measles
mumps
rubella
chicken pox
pneumococcal
influenza
hepatitis A (2 doses)
Two years old
influenza
Three years old
influenza
Four Years old
influenza
Five Years old
influenza
4-6 years old
diphtheria
tetanus
pertussis
polio
measles
mumps
rubella
chicken pox
11-12 years old
diphtheria
tetanus
pertussis
HPV (3 doses for girls)
meningococcal
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