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ICAN has sent a letter with proposed updates to CDC’s list of vaccine contraindications and precautions.
CDC’s “Contraindications and Precautions” page provides guidance to clinicians about when CDC deems it appropriate, and when it deems it not appropriate, to administer a vaccine to a patient. Doctors and state health authorities often rely upon this guidance when deciding whether to grant a medical exemption.
Over the years, the list of contraindications and precautions for vaccination has gotten smaller and more detached from reality. In fact, CDC went so far as to create a long list of conditions that should not be considered reasons to avoid vaccination.
ICAN asked our legal team to review the current list and update it to at least somewhat reflect reality. In a world where healthcare was really about health, CDC would simply provide general guidance so that each doctor could exercise their clinical judgment on whether to grant an exemption to the specific adult or child before them. But as long as vaccines remain a religion, a strict list will continue to exist.
Hence, ICAN’s lawyers asked that healthcare providers should at least be familiar with the risks mentioned in Section 6 of the vaccine package inserts and the conditions listed on the VICP Vaccine Injury Table—and be able to grant an exemption based on those risks. All Americans deserve to have a doctor who can appropriately counsel them on their individual risks to a particular vaccine—and who is willing to write an exemption when the vaccine is contraindicated. That’s the start of true informed consent.
ICAN will continue to monitor for any update to this draconian list.
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