For all of you in Colorado (email from Sherri Tenpenny)

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For all of you in Colorado (email from Sherri Tenpenny)

 

 

 

For all of you in Colorado, you need to contact Cindy Loveland. She is the lead

person in your state working very hard to protect your rights. She needs your

support! She can be reached at MrsSnappy

 

Please pass this on to your lists. This type of legislation will be moving

across the country.

Sincerely,

 

Dr Sherri Tenpenny

www.novaccines.com

 

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On April 26th, The Denver Post printed an editorial on SB 87. This has to be,

by far, one of the worst I've ever seen on this issue. The mainstream media in

Colorado, with the exception of Channel 7 and American Freedom Network, has

perpetuated the lie that CO is last vaccinating toddlers for almost 2 years.

This lie is being used to make the public believe that we need to expand and

fund the CO immunization tracking system to fix this so-called crisis. Below is

what I've written in response to the Post editorial.

 

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The Post editors should go join Julie Gerberdingdong and the rest of the “we

can’t get the numbers straight” and “the sky is falling” federal health

officials out in Washington, DC. The citizens of Colorado are capable of

critical thinking, something the Post editors seem to be lacking. In their

editorial on Tuesday, April 26th, 2005, Owens Should O.K. Immunization Bill, the

Post editors showed not only their bias on the issue, but their ignorance.

 

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0...2835690,00.html

 

Myth: Colorado had the lowest childhood immunization rate among the 50 states in

2004.

 

Truth: Estimates are only available through the 2nd ¼ of June. Alaska,

Kansas, Nevada, New Jersey, Washington and Wyoming are all lower than CO in the

4:3:1:3:3:1 category for children by 24 months.

http://www2a.cdc.gov/nip/coverage/n...Q3/2003-Q2/2004

 

If you look at that same category by age 35 months, there are 11 states lower

than CO.

http://www2a.cdc.gov/nip/coverage/n...Q3/2003-Q2/2004

 

Myth: Only about 63 percent of our children are inoculated against such

contagious diseases as whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles,

mumps, rubella, hepatitis and meningitis.

 

Truth: First, they are not “our” children. They belong to their parents, not

the state or the Post editors. According to the 2nd ¼ 2004 estimates for

children 19-35 months of age; 93.5% got 3 DTP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis

or whooping cough), 76.6% got the 4th DTP, 88.1% got MMR (measles, mumps and

rubella), 88.0% got polio, 87.1% got hepatitis b and 55.1% got 3 pneumococcal

vaccine.

 

The 4th DTP can be given to children in CO up to the age of 48 months, while

federal recommendations are for the 4th DTP to be given by 24 months. Colorado

will always lag in this category as long as the state and federal schedules do

not match. The pneumococcal vaccine, which is the lowest category, has been

indefinitely suspended in Colorado because of cost. The 4th DTP was suspended

because of shortages until Sept. 04. http://www.cispimmunize.org/IZSchedule.pdf

Federal ACIP schedule

http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/dc/Imm...D-certofimm.pdf state

schedule

 

Myth: Senate Bill 87, sponsored by Sen. Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, and Rep.

John Witwer, R-Jefferson County, is sorely needed.

 

Truth: What is sorely needed is funding to purchase vaccines, not an

immunization tracking system that will violate privacy, be expensive and not

increase rates when there are shortages or the state can’t afford to buy the

vaccines.

 

Myth: When parents are informed that their children are due or overdue for an

immunization, they will also be notified " of the option to refuse an

immunization on the grounds of medical, religious or personal belief

considerations. "

 

Truth: Current law requires schools, clinics and practitioners to inform

parents of their rights to exemptions. There are no penalties in the current

law for not informing parents of their rights; therefore it does not happen most

of the time. SB 87 does not provide for any penalties for not informing people

of their rights.

 

http://www.nvic.org/state-site/CO-TrackingLaw.htm current law

 

http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics200...ile=087_enr.pdf

SB 87

 

Myth: Witwer, a physician, said that notification of routine immunizations

would be voluntary for parents who want such notification and who have allowed

their children's information to be included in a state-run database that tracks

child immunizations since 1996.

 

Truth: The word voluntary does not appear anywhere in the tracking system law.

On the contrary, information can be gathered from; birth certificates,

physicians, health care practitioners, clinics, schools, parents, students,

managed care organizations, health insurers, hospitals and persons or entities

that have contracted with the state without consent. The tracking system is not

voluntary and parents are not given the option to allow it or not. After

information is gathered, the so-called “opt-out” does not remove your name and

birth date.

 

Myth: Parental notification would only be required in the case of an epidemic -

and even then, actual immunizations would still be optional.

 

Truth: No one really knows what would happen in CO in the case of an epidemic

because the bio-terrorism plan, including how CO would handle vaccinations and

quarantine, has not been released to the public. SB 87 says the department’s

contractor “may directly contact the parent”. Allowing direct contact will let

it happen. It doesn’t have to be required.

 

Myth: The proposed law strikes a balance between the unquestioned benefits of

immunizations and the religious or other objections some Colorado parents may

have about the practice.

 

Truth: While the Post editors say there are “unquestioned benefits” of

immunizations, there are people in Colorado who question the benefit of

vaccinating newborns and children with hepatitis b when they are not at risk,

vaccinating healthy children with flu vaccine that doesn’t work and still

contains mercury and vaccinating toddlers with chickenpox vaccine that will wear

off and put them at greater risk for complications later in life, among others.

 

Myth: But while taking a vaccine may pose a 1-in-a-million risk of serious

illness or death for a child, contracting the disease itself may pose a 1-in-10

chance of death or crippling injury.

 

Truth: According to VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) data there

were 3,188 life threatening adverse reactions to vaccines and 2,538 deaths since

1990. It is estimated that only 10% of adverse events are ever reported to

VAERS.http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.html Post editors should provide

their reference for diseases we vaccinate children for that carry a 1- in – 10

chance of death or crippling injury.

 

Information compiled by Cindy Loveland, mrssnappy , Colorado citizen

sick and tired of the print media in Colorado not telling people the truth.

 

Editorials alone express The Denver Post's opinion.

 

The members of The Post editorial board are William Dean Singleton, chairman and

publisher; Jonathan Wolman, editorial page editor; Bob Ewegen, deputy editorial

page editor; Todd Engdahl, assistant editorial page editor; Peter G. Chronis,

Dan Haley, Julia Martinez and Penelope Purdy, editorial writers; Mike Keefe,

cartoonist; Barbara Ellis, news editor; Cohen Peart, letters editor; Fred Brown

and Barrie Hartman, associate members.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

New MEdical Awareness Seminars

www.NMASeminars.com