"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes:
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In some states, you can no longer get your child's immunizations
administered at your pediatrician's office for this very reason. Instead
you have to go to the county board of health and sign a form that says
you
have been told that there are occasional deaths and you can't sue the
government.

I hadn't heard that one, Dee. A true Catch-22 situation, because many
immunizations are required by law in order for a kid to go to school.

And from a medical and scientific standpoint, the risk of the disease is
far
worse than the risk of the immunization.

73 de Jim, N2EY

I don't know when this started but I know that this was the case in Ohio in
1987 when my younger daughter was born. The fact that states require the
immunizations for school is why the county boards of health were required to
make the shots available to all at cost. While they were actually cheaper
via the county board of health, there was often no physician on hand in case
of problems.

Yes many people are unaware of the death rates from some of these diseases.
For example, the death rate among children who caught whooping cough was
50%.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE