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A site dedicated to making the case for vaccine exemptions using CDC statements, vaccine inserts, and peer reviewed science.

  • Vaccine Safety
    • Adverse Events After Vaccination – How Often They Occur
    • Adverse Effects of Vaccines Evidence and Causality – 2012 IOM Report
    • Immunity for Vaccine Manufactures & HHS Failure to Submit Safety Reports
    • Plotkin Deposition
    • WHO Global Vaccine Safety Summit
    • ACIP Meeting for Hepislav-B
    • DTP: The Story of an Unsafe Vaccine
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • Hep B
    • Pertussis
    • Influenza
    • NJ Assembly Woman Vandervalk – Protecting an at-risk population
  • Herd Immunity
    • Problems with Herd Immunity: District 11 Stories
      • The Medically Complicated: Keanu
      • Vaccine Injury: Gio
      • The Medically Complicated: Michael
    • Measles & Herd Immunity
  • COVID
    • The Overwhelming Evidence for Keeping Schools Open
    • How to tell the magnitude of NJ’s second wave?
    • FLU SHOT MANDATE: WILL IT HELP DURING COVID-19?
    • Alan Dershowitz and Paul Offit Advocate for Vaccine Choice
    • CDC, Oxford, Stanford Agree, COVID-19 IFR is under 0.3%

THE GREATER GOOD PART III: Current vaccination practices for chickenpox, shingles, rotavirus, and MMR do not protect the immuno-compromised.

The greater good and the protection of the immunocompromised is often cited as the primary rationale for mandatory vaccination. It is currently be used as motivation to remove NJ’s Religious Exemption. This idea is untenable. We’ve addresses that a number of vaccines do not claim to protect the greater good (Part I). We’ve also address how vaccines have yet to provide herd immunity due to primary (low responders) and secondary (early waners) vaccine failure (Part II).

Here in Part III we examine how current vaccination practices do not protect the immuno-compromised for the live chickenpox, shingles, rotavirus, and MMR vaccines. Any time the safety precautions listed on the vaccines label are not followed, the greater good and immunocompromised are put at risk due to live vaccines shedding.   

  • Chicken Pox: (https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/v/varivax/varivax_pi.pdf)  The vaccine label states: “Due to the concern for transmission of vaccine virus, vaccine recipients should attempt to avoid whenever possible close association with susceptible high-risk individuals for up to six weeks following vaccination with VARIVAX. Susceptible high-risk individuals include:
    • Immunocompromised individuals;
    • Pregnant women without documented history of varicella or laboratory evidence of prior infection;
    • Newborn infants of mothers without documented history of varicella or laboratory evidence of prior infection and all newborn infants born at <28 weeks gestation regardless of maternal varicella immunity.
  • Furthermore, the vaccine label states “post-marketing experience suggests that transmission of vaccine virus may occur rarely between healthy vaccinees who develop a varicella-like rash and healthy susceptible contacts.”
  • Shingles: (https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/z/zostavax/zostavax_pi2.pdf) The vaccine labels states “transmission of vaccine virus may occur between vaccinees and susceptible contacts.”
  • Rotavirus: (https://www.gsksource.com/pharma/content/dam/GlaxoSmithKline/US/en/Prescribing_Information/Rotarix/pdf/ROTARIX-PI-PIL.PDF) The vaccine label states “rotavirus shedding in stool occurs after vaccination with peak excretion occurring around Day 7 after Dose 1.”
  • Furthermore the insert states “One clinical trial demonstrated that vaccinees transmit vaccine virus to healthy seronegative contacts [see Clinical Pharmacology].”
  • MMR: (https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/m/mmr_ii/mmr_ii_pi.pdf) The MMRII vaccine label states “excretion of small amounts of the live attenuated rubella virus from the nose or throat has occurred in the majority of susceptible individuals 7 to 28 days after vaccination.”
  • At least one study, from the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, found measles in the urine of the recently vaccinated (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC228449/pdf/332485.pdf).

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3. Call and Email your Senator and Assemblymembers – ask them to oppose bill S902/A969. Use this link to find your representatives’ phone number and send them a message.

4. Call and Email the Bill Sponsors: Senate President Sweeney: [email protected] / 856-251-9801; Assemblyman Conway  [email protected] / (856) 461-3997

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All information, data and material contained, presented, or provided here is for general information purposes only and is not to be construed as reflecting the knowledge or opinions of the publisher, and is not to be construed or intended as providing medical or legal advise. The decision to vaccinate and how you implement that decision is yours and yours alone. You are encouraged to consult with your medical professional and legal adviser.

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