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MEDICAL EXEMPTION DENIAL INFO/ SUGGESTION:
Because of the recently changed Department of Health regulations (restrictions) regarding medical exemptions, NYS is now flooded with denied medical exemptions; many of them have been valid in previous years. Doctor’s orders are being overridden to the extent these physicians are petrified to write letters for families with fragile kids. Children are being put in harm’s way and parents are wondering where to turn to keep their vaccine vulnerable children in school and maintain access to their services.
The attorneys working on the challenge to the repeal bill are stretched thin.
I encourage you to seek out legal help, on your own or with other parents, to challenge the overreach of medical exemption regulations and the denial of the doctor’s recommendation that your child not be vaccinated. If an affected family would like to set up a FB group for the issue so parents can unite, communicate and join forces, that would be helpful.
Here is the statute allowing for medical exemptions:
If any physician licensed to practice medicine in this state certifies that such immunization may be detrimental to a child’s health, the requirements of this section shall be inapplicable until such immunization is found no longer to be detrimental to the child’s health.
The above is from New York State Public Health Law 2164, Section 8. It’s simple. The state has once again overreached with draconian restrictions on the medical exemptions. These actions are criminal.
Ironically, the New York State legislature has a bill that protects the medical exemption that has not moved in years. It is held by Senator Gustavo Rivera. Below is the link to the bill.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s477
Please contact your NY legislators and ask them to support this bill. Find your legislators at
NYSENATE.gov
NYASSEMBLY.gov
Calling them on the phone is NOT enough. Emailing them is NOT enough. Ask for a face-to-face meeting and bring people in the district. Ask for support for this bill IN WRITING. Get others to write letters supporting this bill.
WE SHOULD BE SHARING THESE STORIES WITH ALL MEDIA OUTLETS- THEY ARE HEARTBREAKING. Please contact me at ritapalma@mykidsmychoice.com for media contact information and help telling your story to reporters who will use a delicate touch. The public needs to hear your story. We can change the public perception with this issue- we can wake people up to the idea that VACCINE INJURY IS REAL.
Please share this with our community.
