Andrew Cuomo signs bill to require meningitis shot for students entering sixth- and 11th-grades

[proverbialwisdom]

Source: BY GLENN BLAIN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 12:14 AM

ALBANY — Students entering sixth- and 11th-grades must be vaccinated against meningococcal disease under a bill signed late Monday by Gov. Cuomo.

The measure, which was approved by the Assembly and Senate in June, was based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and had the backing of a wide array of medical and community groups.

"This new law sends a clear message — we are not willing to lose one more person to a vaccine preventable illness,” said Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther (D-Sullivan County), who sponsored the bill. “Making the vaccination mandatory is not only good policy, it's good medicine.”


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-signs-bill-require-meningitis-shot-schools-article-1.2414047

[Humanist_Activist]

2. This is a good thing. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

3. We had an outbreak here in VA back when I was a senior

it was actually spread at a big track and field meet in Northern Va., so high schools all over the state had potential carriers and there was a big panic...

And we had a huge scare at my school when it was revealed that one of the infected students from a rival school came to our school gym to cheer his basketball team... And it was a big game, so it was a packed house. (I still remember where he was sitting in the crowd -- A teammate on the bench pointed him out to me, since he was a 3-sport star and was starting to get some college interest)...Mercifully, the infected student didn't transmit to anyone because he started to feel symptoms right after our game, and was hospitalized that night...

[jen63]

4. I had my kid at the doc's

office as soon as the recommendations for it came out. He was eleven. His doc didn't even realize that he had it on hand, but thank gawd he did.

[gregcrawford]

5. It should be mandatory nation-wide...

... with no "philosophical" excuses, period. We lost our youngest son to meningitis on Christmas day, 1992, the day after his 10th birthday.

I have great difficulty containing a volcanic rage when I hear some sanctimonious moron spew verbal vomit about the dangers of vaccines.

The doctor that started all of this nonsense had his license to practice medicine revoked as direct result of his "studies" being completely and utterly repudiated, and yet these twits STILL believe this total bullshit.

[proverbialwisdom]

8. My condolences for your unfathomable loss. I'm sure I can't begin to imagine how you feel.

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Nonetheless, your views are problematic for reasons (MULTIPLE) described here:

http://www.legislativegazette.com/Articles-Top-Stories-c-2015-05-26-91901.113122-Letter-to-the-Editor-No-rational-analysis-of-the-facts.html


If you think for a minute that the RISK-BENEFIT analysis is a no-brainer, then you are woefully uninformed. This recent decision (below) reflects THAT REALITY.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2015/06/acip-endorses-individual-choice-meningitis-b-vaccine

ACIP endorses individual choice on meningitis B vaccine
June 24, 2015

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) today stopped short of recommending routine use of serogroup B meningococcal vaccine in young people, instead leaving the decision to doctors and their patients.

The committee voted 14-1 for individual choice on use of the vaccine in adolescents and young adults ages 16 through 23, with 16- to 18-year-olds as the preferred age-group. The move came in the wake of several meningitis B outbreaks and a number of sporadic cases on college campuses in the past 2 years.

Some safety, efficacy concerns

Representatives of various organizations and several relatives of meningitis B victims urged the panel to endorse routine immunization against the disease. But some level of uncertainty about vaccine safety caused reluctance to vote for routine use.

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Note: The new law does not pertain to the vaccine for meningitis B.

[HockeyMom]

6. They don't mandate it for adult college students

who don't dorm. They don't mandate it, or any vaccinations, for NYS Public School staff. Hep. B vaccination is offered to staff, but they can refuse it without any reason given why not.

[hack89]

7. Rhode Island just did the same

except it is required for incoming HS seniors.

[restorefreedom]

9. i believe ri is also requiring hpv vax

for middle schoolers

leading the way in turning off people to reasonable vaccines by requiring ridiculous ones

edit...just to clarify..the hpv vax is not ridiculous...mandating it is.

[KT2000]

10. why the distinction - 6th AND 11th grades

I don't understand why they specified those grades instead of saying all students must be vaccinated from 6th grade on. This would account for kids moving into the state's schools from elsewhere. As it is there is a large gap.