California children receive 50 doses of 14 different vaccines by age six, and 69 doses of 16 vaccines by age 18.
Thousands of parents and grandparents traveled to the California State Capitol Monday from all across California to protest SB 276 which would disallow the vaccination medical exemptions parents were receiving from family physicians, and its companion bill SB 714, hastily gutted and amended, and disingenuously shoved through the Assembly and Senate without any policy hearings.
Several protesters were arrested for blocking the entrance of the State Capitol parking garage.
The bills would order the California Department of Public Health to investigate and discipline doctors who grant more than five medical exemptions in a year, in schools with immunization rates under 95 percent.
Today’s headlines are misleading:
Anti-vaccine activists arrested at CA Capitol over law;
California Globe interviewed many of these protesters. The majority are not anti-vaccination parents; they are protesting the State’s rigid mandatory vaccine schedule, and the attempt by the Legislature to disallow medical exemptions, even for already vaccine-injured children.
Another sub-headline said:
California’s governor signed bills intended to crack down on doctors who write fraudulent medical exemptions for school children’s vaccinations.
Except, of the fraudulent exemptions cases that the Medical Board of California has investigated to date, there have been no fraudulent medical exemptions found.
SB 276, by Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), was jammed through the Legislature last week at record speed, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom saying he had his own set of amendments he wanted included.
So SB 714, also by Sen. Pan, was gutted and amended (see graphic below) over the weekend to include the Governor’s changes. On Monday the bill was bypassed by the Assembly which had suspended the rules to do this, and voted on in the Senate within hours.
Presenting SB 714, Sen. Richard Pan said it was “agreed to in the Assembly.” Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Temecula) asked for the bill to at least be heard in the Senate Health Committee prior to the Senate voting on it, warning “SB 714 is going to be a mockery of democracy,” to not have one policy hearing. His motion was shot down 27-11 along party lines. Following the vote, a man sitting up in the Senate gallery shouted, “You’re killing our children.” He was promptly removed by the Capitol police.
“We are talking past each other,” Sen. John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) said. He noted that members of the Senate seemed more concerned about bobcats than children with anaphylactic shock received from vaccines. “This bill is now vindictive,” he added. “This Legislature is even scaring our medical community.”
Sen. Moorlach spoke passionately about his cousin’s son Robby, who was developmentally disabled, never learned to talk or walk. “Having a disabled child is a full-time obligation… that’s what these people fear,” he said. He asked colleagues to consider the potential of allergic reactions infants and toddlers can have from vaccines, before they voted on SB 714.
The Latin inscription emblazoned over the dais of the State Senate Chamber says, “Senatoris est civitatis libertatem tueri” — It is the duty of the senators to protect the liberty of the citizens, Sen. Brian Jones said. “This is an abuse of power, and an abuse of the legislative process. There is no impeding crisis today.”
Jones asked Senate colleagues what the crisis was that required lawmakers to “ram through this process.”
“A couple thousand people came to a hearing with their vaccine-injured children,” said Sen. Jeff Stone, a pharmacist. He said at the hearing in which he was the chairman, seeing the vaccine-injured children really resonated for him that while rare, there are children who suffer lifelong disabilities from reactions from vaccinations. “Allow the exemption process to continue,” he said. “It’s less than once percent… these parents are trying to protect their children.” He said the few vaccine exemptions granted would not have any impact on the herd immunity of communities.
“The cure is worse than the disease itself for some,” Stone said. “Give parents a peace of mind. I’m begging you, vote no on SB 714.”
Sen. Jones, pleading with Senators “to withdraw SB 714 and petition the Governor to veto SB 276,” quoted Thomas Jefferson to make his point: “A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), a co-sponsor of SB 276, posted this tyrannical comment on Twitter Monday:
Her Tweet elicited many responses, such as this one:
Did you seriously just say “yet”?! I thought this bill was created because of all the fraudulent MEs?! I’m so glad the co-author of the bill has admitted that NO fraudulent MEs have been found!! @GavinNewsom . how much more do you need before you #VetoSB276
Many of the parents protesting outside Gov. Newsom’s office asked aloud how many of the vaccines Gov. Newsom’s four small children have had. Others asked how many of the Legislators who voted to pass these two bills even know when they received their booster shots, and how many they received.
I received four vaccines as a child. Today’s children receive 50 doses by age six, and 69 by age 18. The Centers for Disease Control reports that one child in six in America suffers with learning and behavior disorders while millions more suffer with asthma, diabetes and other chronic allergic and autoimmune diseases, likely related to vaccinations.
In 1953, the CDC recommended 16 doses of 4 vaccines (smallpox, DPT) between two months and age six. In 1983, the CDC recommended 23 doses of 7 vaccines (DPT, MMR, polio) between two months and age six. In 2013, the CDC recommended 50 doses of 14 vaccines between day of birth and age six and 69 doses of 16 vaccines between day of birth and age 18.
Recently, in a California Globe op ed, Attorney Mary Holland asked, “When a physician decides that a child is too medically fragile to receive a vaccine, but is not allowed to submit a medical exemption because it is not a listed CDC contraindication, and that child suffers a life-threatening reaction, such as multiple seizures or encephalitis (both listed on vaccine manufacturer inserts), is the doctor liable, or the state official who denied the exemption?”
Sen. Pan has not answered this question to date. However, he says his bills are needed to “keep children safe from preventable diseases.”
Gov. Newsom signed SB 276 and SB 714.
Newsom’s amendments will grandfather in all medical exemptions prior to January 1, 2020, when SB 276 goes in to effect. However, a student who previously received an exemption would need to obtain a new exemption before entering kindergarten or 7th grade, or when newly enrolling in a school district or school.
“This legislation provides new tools to better protect public health, and does so in a way that ensures parents, doctors, public health officials and school administrators all know the rules of the road moving forward,” Newsom said in a statement.
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Lots of anti vaccine misinformation in this article. If anyone wants examples, feel free to ask.
There is no misinformation here. Why you spend all of your time trolling her articles is unbeknownst to me. We are lucky that articles like Kathy’s are even accessible.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I've been familiar with the debunked anti-vax talking points for years now and how the leaders of the movement deceive their gullible followers. It certainly doesn't take much of my time to read an article and comment on it, especially when I'm already familiar with the topic.
Why do you think the article contains no misinformation? Why do the anti-sb276 folk continue to claim that the Medical Board of CA haven't found any fraudulent exemptions, when Bob Sears was put on probation for that very reason.
Ironically, Dr. Sears recently lamented that the "hundreds" of exemptions he had written would become invalid, further disproving the idea that no exemptions were illegitimate.
So you think a Healthy Mom delivering a new Baby never on drugs or sexually transmitted diseases should have her Baby shot with a Hep B shot from New Born to 18 months ? Explain to me why you think a healthy Baby who is not in a drug environment or around people with sexually transmitted diseases should get these shots. I want a intelligent answer from you. And why our State cannot be more pro active in removing Filth in our streets brought on by Homeless, Mentally Ill and drug addicts. That they bestow these vaccines on healthy people instead of control the Ill. Get people off drugs, out of Homelessness and off the streets.
You want an intelligent answer? Simple. Anti-vaccine activists pretend that Hep B is only spread through sex and drugs, but this isn't true at all. Thousands of babies and toddlers have contracted Hep B through other means. Simply chewing on something (which babies do all the time) is a way for the virus to spread.
Want me to elaborate?
Accurate. If mom tests negative, there is NO reason for this vaccine. There never was an epidemic of infants with Heb B, the vaccine was made for drug addicts and the sexually promiscuous. That group wasn't buying, so the only other thing to do with all those vaccines was to make it mandatory for all NEWBORN BABIES. Good job guys. Highest infant mortality rate in the developed world.
Brian you are one ignorant provax troll.
Chewing on something causes Hep B!!
Where, in the brothels you and Pan attend?
Dr Bob Sears was put on probation for writing a medical exemption for a toddler who had TWICE suffered a severe vaccine adverse reaction. Clearly you are not familiar with this case. https://reset.me/story/doctors-disagree-with-charges-against-dr-bob-sears-assert-vaccine-safety-is-a-concern/ And yes, that would be enough for his other exemptions to be "invalid", it has nothing to do with the validity of those children's medical concerns, it is all about control, $$, and politics. Troll elsewhere.
Jennifer Margulis, Paul Thomas, Deborah Gordon, Robert Rowen.
Anti-vaccine fraudsters defending other anti-vaccine fraudsters? Why is it that only known quacks, who make money selling stuff on their personal websites, the ones who defend Bob Sears?
Not a very convincing case.
Apparently Brian is a shill
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shill
You are wrong. Why don't you go bask in the glory of injured and dead children these terrible laws will cause and leave us alone. We aren't anti-vax. We are ex-vax and quite frankly I don't care if you vax or not. Informed medical choice. Medical freedom.
Vaccine-preventable diseases like measles killed over 100,000,000 children globally in the last century. That's more than Stalin, Mao, Hitler, ISIS, and every vaccine injury ever, combined!
Brian you are mistaken. There have been over 4000 medical exemptions investigated and not one has turned out to be fraudulent. Even the bills co-author, Lorena Gonzalez, admitted that they haven’t found any fraudulent exemptions “yet”. It’s a witch-hunt.
If there are no fraudulent exemptions, then this bill won't really do anything.
Bob Sears admitted that "hundreds" of the medical exemptions he had written would become invalid.
Brian you obviously have not read the bill. When SB277 was passed, Pan promised that medical exemptions would still be able to be obtained. That bill left it up to doctors to decide which patients shouldn’t receive vaccines and the reasoning was up to their discretion based on the childs personal or family history. Under 276, doctors are no longer able to do that, they can no longer provide more than 5 medical exemptions per year and medical exemptions now have to be approved by a state official, it is no longer left up to the patients doctor. Bob Sears admitted that so many of his exemptions would become fraudulent under this new bill, because next to nothing qualifies for an exemption under this bill. I hear the argument “I trust my doctor” in regards to vaccinations all the time. Well I hope you trust a state official you’ve never met just as much because that’s who will make these decisions now.
Lauren, if you have to lie to support your position, then your position is invalid.
The law doesn't say that. Anyone with an internet connection can see that for themselves.
Why do anti-vaxxers lie so much?
Brian,
While politicians may have cover for libel you do not. I would suggest you read the reason for Bob Sears probation. He never provided an exemption. He provided an opinion in a divorce case that the judge agreed with. Probation was due to lack of additional notes in his file. The records have been released.
If you believe the words of quacks and fraudsters, you will remain misinformed.
He wasn't put on probation for writing an exemption. He was put on probation for writing a letter for a child in support of no vaccinations that was used in a custody case. You are the one spreading false information.
Dr. Sears went to court, and won.
The medical body, however, can still put him on probation regardless of the courts agreeing with his decision to give that child a ME.
Why are we trading a week long illness such as flu or chicken pox for lifelong chronic illnesses such as ADHD, diabetes, asthma, allergies, arthritis and autism?
Vaccines don't cause those things, liar. And those diseases killed thousands.
Thanks for proving me correct that the anti-sb276 folk are simply anti vaccine.
LYING TROLL! You must be Senator Pan under a Fake Name!
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Bull shit. Did you read the article? Which part of "The majority are not anti-vaccination parents; they are protesting the State’s rigid mandatory vaccine schedule, and the attempt by the Legislature to disallow medical exemptions, even for already vaccine-injured children" did you not understand or your two brain cells not register? Let's hear you sing when they also come for your adult ass.
They ARE antivaccine and their kids are NOT vaccine injured. Anti vaccine activists just lie about this, in the same way KKK members insist they aren't racist.
There's plenty of proof of this. Want me to explain it to you?
My kids are vaccinated, and my oldest has a diagnosed vaccine injury as well. Guess you can't speak for all of us.
Are you bothered by the crowds who falsely blame autism or SIDS on vaccines, despite this being disproven for decades?
Kids are not vaccine injured?
99% of the sick and dying children are the vaccinated.
Vaccines are nothing but toxic junk science clown, that have never saved anyone, let alone eradicated anything except children's lives!
Lol...and you have no proof of anything..... NONE!!!
Ummmm...
Eradication of:
Polio.
Smallpox.
Near Eradication:
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Measles.
Mumps. (Or the last three were near eradicated right up until the anti vax movement began going widespread, and now, inexplicably, they are making a comeback.)
Tetanus.
Massive decrease in:
Yellow Fever.
Influenza.
Typhus.
Hepatitis.
Rabies (both animal and human)
And many, many more non-US-centric (various encephalitis diseases, dengue fever, plague, and many, many more,) and pet vaccines which have reduced the incidence of kennel cough, leptospirosis, distemper, rabies, feline leukemia, etc., etc., etc.
There is even a proven vaccine against rattlesnake bite venom which is given to dogs now.
I know it is such a small, small list of vaccine success stories, Danno. It is a minuscule list, really. It is so small it might be difficult for you to see the causal relationship between vaccines and the eradication or reduction of disease here, but try, just a little. I mean it is not like untold millions of lives have been saved by vaccines or anything. So hold on to your misinformation and emotional response. That is far more important than actual facts. /s
What? Put it up with the science to back it up!
Sorry, I’m not interested in provax misinformation
Thank you for reporting the truth and facts about this bill.
Thank you, Katy Grimes, for being the only full investigative journalist I've seen to date who is being observant with a very cautious and scrupulous eye. No bumper sticker slogans we've all heard before are touted here except as direct quote from those in the interviews, but a description that I feel, as a witness and protestor in Sacramento to SB276 and SB714 , covers what we saw and experienced first hand.
Thank you, Thank you Thank you Katy for standing up for independent and factual journalism worthy of the free press in this country and what is desperately needed if we are to remain a somewhat free country or succumb to a fascist corporate run state that our legislators are currently serving.
With SB 714, it says Medical Exemptions dated prior to Jan 2020 are grandfathered in (meaning my 7th grader with a ME is good thru 12th grade). Do I still need to submit the ME and could it be taken away?
the grandfathered-in MEs have VERY strict guidelines. Not all MEs in existence will be allowed! It is a very mis-leading and dishonest statement. Re-read SB217 and you will see how narrow that bill really is.
You say to Re read SB217. There is no 217? Nowhere in SB714 does it say the grandfathered in ME have to be evaluated. I know in the original SB276 text, all ME were to be turned in by Jan 1, 2021 to remain valid, but my understanding is once they are grandfathered in with the passing of SB714, they don’t have to be evaluated. Does anyone know how to confirm?
Cindy it’s the same grandfathering as sb277. K-7&7-12unless you change schools.
Finally, a REAL journalist reporting the TRUTH. Thank you Katy Grimes. This holocaust must end.
I have lots of kids and lots of questions about the super max vax schedule. To force it under so many false pretenses is troubling to say the least. Thanks, Ms. Grimes, for your unflinching and independent coverage on this and other Sacramento Demento news.
They want to make it all but impossible for kids to get exemptions, and the "grand-fathered-in exemptions have time limitations! They want all kids vaccinated. period. Your child has to die, or nearly die to get an exemption IF YOU CAN STILL FIND A DR WILLING TO WRITE ONE. they do. not. care.
https://rickjaffeesq.com/2019/09/10/now-that-sb-276-and-sb-714-are-law-what-does-it-all-mean-for-parents/?fbclid=IwAR0MpbDjCEKpVaZkt-z34v2_3DNJcFtAiS_SCI5MlMpeTK2t1wR16iSRTvM
adults are next.
Thank you for this refreshingly honest reporting!
Thank you for the honest truth in reporting, Katy Grimes!!