Help stop a dangerous vaccine bill in the District of Columbia Legislature!

The District of Columbia is considering a bill, B25-0545, that would amend the District of Columbia Health Occupations Revision Act of 1985 to change the duties of health professionals.

B25-0545 would trivialize very real vaccine risks and serious reactions by allowing podiatrists to administer and pharmacists to both order and administer CDC-approved vaccines to all age groups.

Any time podiatrists or pharmacists are allowed to vaccinate, it creates significant risks. Podiatrists and pharmacists are not necessarily qualified to recognize or handle serious adverse reactions, nor are they likely to have full knowledge of patient or family history.

The portion of the bill that concerns WAPF is the provision that would authorize podiatrists to administer vaccines and pharmacists to order and administer vaccinations in accordance with CDC-published guidelines. WAPF does not take a position on sections of the bill unrelated to vaccination.

Please speak up!

TAKE ACTION

Contact your DC Council Member and urge him or her to oppose B25-0545.

You can find out who represents you by calling the general line at (202) 724-8000. You can also look up your member at https://dccouncil.us/councilmembers/.

Calls are more effective than emails and only take a few minutes. Below is a sample script along with additional Talking Points. Use your own words when you call or email – a personal message is always more effective than a form message!

SAMPLE SCRIPT:

“Hi, my name is ____, and I am a constituent. I am calling to ask Council Member ____ to oppose B25-0545, which would allow podiatrists to administer and pharmacists to order and administer vaccines.

I oppose this bill because it undermines the primary doctor-patient relationship. Just like all pharmaceutical products, vaccines can cause injury and death in some people. While podiatrists are doctors, they are not necessarily qualified to recognize or treat serious vaccine side effects.

It is particularly reckless to allow pharmacists to give vaccines, especially when they do not have access to a person’s medical history.

As recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court – and evidenced by the $5.1 billion that has been paid by the federal government to victims – vaccines can injure and kill an individual.

I urge Council Member _______ to oppose B25-0545.”

You may wish to use a couple of the talking points below. Don’t copy all of them – just use them as ideas to help structure your own message.

TALKING POINTS:

Podiatrists and pharmacists do not have enough training about all the vaccines, risks, prescreening, contraindications, and emergency interventions for reactions, nor are they necessarily instructed on reporting reactions to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System and on advising parents and patients about the statute of limitations and instructions for filing a claim with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

When podiatrists and pharmacists are allowed to administer or prescribe vaccines, it diminishes the primary physician/patient relationship and removes critical health history screenings prior to vaccination.

Most pharmacies don’t have lifesaving defibrillators as they do in doctors’ offices to save the lives of individuals who have an immediate life-threatening reaction to vaccines. Will pharmacists have the equipment and training to be able to tell the difference between cardiac arrest, anaphylaxis, and fainting and act accordingly to save the lives of individuals who react at the time of vaccination?

Will podiatrists and pharmacists screen for allergic reactions to vaccine ingredients, such as checking for yeast allergies in children (contraindication for HPV vaccine)? Will they assess vaccine components, including checking for contraindications like fever, as stated in VIS statements? Are they knowledgeable about a child’s compromised immune system due to conditions like cancer, HIV/AIDS, or medical treatments (e.g., radiation, immunotherapy)? Additionally, will they screen for factors like easy bruising, bleeding tendencies, pregnancy, or aspirin intake and be informed about previous serious reactions to vaccines?

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 order and administer those shots to customers.

Vaccine Information Statements list many reasons why patients shouldn’t be vaccinated. It is highly unlikely that podiatrists or pharmacists have the time to ask about all the reasons not to vaccinate them.

Allowing pharmacists to order vaccines without access to a person’s medical records means that a person may receive unintended or duplicate vaccines.

Vaccine package inserts warn of the risk of brain damage, life-threatening allergy, and death, and no one knows in advance whom a vaccine will harm. Pharmacists are not equipped to recognize nor handle serious adverse reactions.

Vaccines are medical procedures that carry a risk of serious injury. Hundreds of thousands have reported an adverse reaction to vaccination to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The U.S. Government has paid out approximately $5.1 billion as of January 2024 to the victims of vaccine injury, per VICP Data Reports. As of 1/26/2024, There were 47,290 deaths and 2,579,111 adverse events reported to the US government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vicp/vicp-stats-01-01-24.pdf

Pharmacy employees will have no liability for the injuries and deaths caused by the vaccines they administer. Vaccine 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.

There have already been 2,579,111 Covid-19 shot adverse events and 36,650 Covid-19 shot deaths reported in the U.S. to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (per data released 1/26/24).

Run your own search – https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.php

Cases (adverse events) – https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php

Deaths – https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&EVENTS=ON&VAX%5B%5D=COVID19&DIED=Yes

MORE INFORMATION

Read B25-0545 text here: https://lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/B25-0545?FromSearchResults=true

LINKS embedded in this alert:

Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System –

https://vaers.hhs.gov/

instructions for filing a claim –

https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/how-to-file

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program –

https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation