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Idaho Public Health Department Barred From Giving COVID Vaccine— Experts say it's a first (www.medpagetoday.com)

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A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.

Southwest District Health appears to be the first in the nation to be restricted from giving COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccinations are an essential function of a public health department.

While policymakers in Texas banned health departments from promoting COVID vaccinesopens in a new tab or window and Florida's surgeon generalopens in a new tab or window bucked medical consensus to recommend against the vaccine, governmental bodies across the country haven't blocked the vaccinesopens in a new tab or window outright.

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Opposite Jansen's plea were more than 290 public comments, many of which called for an end to vaccine mandates or taxpayer funding of the vaccines, neither of which are happening in the district. At the meeting, many people who spoke are nationally known for making the rounds to testify against COVID vaccines, including Peter McCullough, MD, a Texas cardiologist who sells "contagion emergency kits" that include ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

JFC. The lunatics are running the asylum and heading to spread their shit in other states.

Also, FYI, the same copy/paste hijack got me. Your post body has a lot of "opens in a new tab or window". Had to edit those out of my own quote from the article.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago

Your post body has a lot of "opens in a new tab or window".

It's infected, having been denied a vaccine.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And if the Republicans win the election they're threatening to make vaccines (possibly all vaccines) unavailable nationwide. They're planning to withhold one of the greatest medical advances ever from the entire US population. This will plunge the country back into health conditions not seen for hundreds of years.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10841835/us-election-trump-rfk-jr-vaccines-health/

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll only ban them for us poor people so... Wait, what was the end goal again?

[-] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago

Idaho is a fucking shit hole.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

Opens in a new tab or window Opens in a new tab or window

[-] Rottcodd@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Setting aside the anti-health and anti-sanity aspects of this, the thing that gets me is that Republicans somehow continue to believe that they're the party of freedom when everything they do involves ever more regulation.

They frame things as if the Democrats are oppressing people and the Republicans are fighting for their freedom, but the exact opposite is actually true - the way that things actually work, consistently, is that Democrats want to give people the freedom to do things and Republicans are fighting to destroy those freedoms. Their reaction to every single thing they encounter is to pass a law against it, which is literally the exact opposite of freedom.

Now granted - most of their positions are insane, so it's not as if rationality should be expected, but this just seems to be something so simple and so obvious that they can't possibly miss it. Yet somehow they do.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

They are trying to pull a power vacuum move. This needs to be shut down.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Hey look my home state made it to the news again! Amazing, it's even worse than usual!

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