Barbara Loe Fisher is president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit charity she co-founded with parents of DPT vaccine injured children in 1982.  NVIC is a national, grassroots movement and public information campaign to institute vaccine safety reforms and informed consent protections in the public health system. She has researched, analyzed and publicly articulated the major issues involving the science, policy, law, ethics and politics of vaccination to become one of the world’s leading non-medical, consumer advocacy experts on the subject.

August marks the annual observance of National Immunization Awareness Month.  However, since the COVID shot was released, there’s been a greater skepticism on the part of many individuals regarding whether they should readily accept all the shots and boosters recommended by the FDA and the CDC.  People are asking more questions, not only about the COVID shots, but as a new school year begins, parents are wondering about all the vaccine doses they’re told to obtain for their children and they’re wondering if they’re making the right decisions.  After all, what about other options, side-effects and what about HPV vaccines?

So if informed consent is of interest to you, you’ll want to review this edition of Crosstalk as Barbara covered many facets of the immunization debate as it pertains to children.  Some of the points she covered included:  

• The attitudes of Republicans vs. Democrats related to vaccines. 
• The disturbing growth of the childhood vaccine recommendations list.
• The religious exemption option.
• Have shots been given to students without the knowledge or consent of parents?
• Have people been threatened, coerced or thrown out for not wanting to get certain vaccines for their children or for proposing a different vaccine schedule?

There’s more to take in, including answers to questions from listeners nationwide. 

More Information

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