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ACTION ALERT!
Contact Senators Immediately, Oppose H305!
Please call your Senator(s) ASAP FRIDAY MORNING (after 7 am) at 1-802-828-2228 and urge them to OPPOSE H305.
H305 has been substantially amended by the Senate Committee on Government Operations and is on 3rd reading.
This amended bill increases costs (fees) for working Vermonters AND authorizes pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to give Covid and Flu shots to FIVE-yr olds.
This bill is unnecessary, costs workers money, and trivializes very real vaccine risks and serious reactions by allowing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to administer possibly life-threatening vaccines to young children.
Please call (after 7 am) at 1-802-828-2228 and ask Senators to OPPOSE H305. Find out who your senator is, here.
- You will leave your name, your town + your message: VOTE NO on H305.
- See talking points below, and feel free to add your own.
Legislators: Please Consider the Following Information and Vote NO on H305
No testimony was taken regarding the reasoning behind this new provision to inject 5-yr-olds in drug stores. Here are some questions and facts to consider:
Will pharmacists or pharmacy technicians have the equipment and training to be able to tell the difference between cardiac arrest, anaphylaxis, fainting, and act accordingly to save the lives of small children who react at the time of vaccination?
This bill undermines the doctor patient relationship and removes critical health history screenings prior to vaccination. Neither pharmacists nor less qualified pharmacy technicians have the necessary medical history of FIVE YEAR OLD child or the time to prescreen for contraindications based on a child’s personal and family history and unique heath needs prior to vaccination. Vaccines, just like all pharmaceutical products, can cause injury and death in some people.
Neither pharmacists nor pharmacy technicians have enough training on product risks, prescreening, contraindications, emergency interventions for reactions, reporting reactions to Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), and advising parents about the statute of limitations and instructions for filing a claim with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
In Vermont alone in just two years COVID shots have been associated with 2,471 adverse events, including death. Flu shots have been associated with about 30 adverse events per year in VT. By contrast, children are not at risk of death from COVID or FLU. These VAERS reports are often discredited by authorities but stand as testimony of the actual consumer experience. VAERS reports are largely submitted by healthcare providers and required by law.
According to Vermont’s administrative rules for the Board of Pharmacy, a pharmacy technician "may, under the supervision of the pharmacist, assist in the pharmacy and perform such functions as:
- receiving requests for refills of current prescriptions;
- processing of medical coverage claims;
- inventory responsibilities; and
- cashiering.”
Vaccine Information Statements list many reasons why patients shouldn’t be vaccinated, and it is highly unlikely a pharmacist or technician has the time to ask about all the reasons not to vaccinate them.
These are some of the reasons to not vaccinate that are recorded in federally required vaccine information statements that a pharmacist or pharmacy technician with limited training on vaccines is unlikely to catch:
- Will pharmacists or pharmacy technicians screen for things like allergic reactions to ingredients in the vaccine and are they going to cover all these ingredients of every vaccine?
- Will they check if a child is allergic to yeast (contraindication in HPV vaccine)?
- Are they going to perform an exam at the pharmacy and take the child’s temperature to make sure they don’t have a fever since fever is contraindicated for some vaccines in the VIS statements?
- Are they going to know if the child has a weakened immune system due to disease (such as cancer or HIV/AIDS), medical treatments (such as radiation, immunotherapy, steroids, or chemotherapy), if they have a history of seizures, if they have a parent, brother, or sister with a history of seizures, or if they have a parent, brother, or sister with a history of immune system problems?
- Will they screen if the child has a condition that makes them bruise or bleed easily, if they might be pregnant (some vaccines cannot be given in pregnancy), or if they are taking aspirin?
- Will they know if a child has recently had a transfusion or if they have ever had Guillain-Barre syndrome post vaccination?
- Will they know if a child has had a serious or a life-threatening reaction to any vaccine?
Most pharmacies and grocery stores don’t have lifesaving defibrillators like they do in doctors’ offices to save the lives of infants and children who have an immediate life-threatening reaction to vaccines. And they do happen.
In fact, as of January 1, 2023, The United States Government has paid out more than $4.9 billion dollars to vaccine victims through the "VICP". As of 1/13/2023, There were 43,431 deaths and 2,407,011 adverse events reported to the US government's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. Clearly, there are dangers associated with vaccines that may be compounded by increasing those who can administer them.
There is no doubt that pharmacy groups will support this bill, but it presents a serious conflict of interest because of the financial benefits they will receive if this bill passes.
America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are developing 258 vaccines. The U.S. Vaccine Market alone was $36.45 billion in 2018, and is expected to reach $58.4 billion by 2024 and pharmacies stand to increase their profits substantially by allowing pharmacy technicians to put those shots into children and adults alike. This will not stop at just Flu and Covid shots for our youngest.
This conflict is compounded by the fact that neither Pharmacists nor pharmacy technicians will have liability for the injuries and deaths caused by the vaccines they administer to children.
Vaccines administrators are shielded from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths through the combination of the law passed by Congress in 1986 establishing the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the 2011 Supreme Court Decision BRUESEWITZ ET AL. v. WYETH LLC, FKA WYETH, INC., ET AL.
Please vote no on this unnecessary and costly bill (H305).
An apology that this is last minute and urgent - but we were only just made aware, and it is critically important that YOU be made aware of the harms this bill may cause.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Stella
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