12 state attorneys general call on ACIP to reject
considerations of adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of childhood
immunities and the VFC.
BATON ROUGE, LA - Louisiana Attorney General is calling on
the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to not include
the COVID-19 vaccination on the list of child immunizations. The State’s
chief legal officer slammed the ACIP for two votes taken at the October 2022 meetings
this week, which occurred prior to the close of the public comment period.
“This action could deny many parents the freedom to
determine whether to subject their kids to an experimental vaccine,” said
Attorney General Landry.
In a public comment letter submitted to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention’s Director Rochelle Wolensky – Attorney General
Landry and 11 of his colleagues also call on the ICIP to not include the
COVID-19 vaccine in the Vaccines for Children Program (VFC), a program created
by Congress in the wake of a measles outbreak to ensure that kids from
low-income families have access to free vaccines.
“The COVID-19 vaccine does not provide the same protection
against life threatening illnesses. Instead, it could put more kids at risk
instead of protecting them which is the purpose of the VCF,” added Attorney
General Landry. “The CDC should not be treating kids in low-income households
as lab experiments. Nor should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to use
low-income families as cash cows.”
“Given the lack of need for kids to obtain the vaccines and
their lack of effectiveness, adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of
childhood immunizations amounts to little more than a payout to big
pharmaceutical companies at the expense of kids and parents,” wrote the
attorneys general.
Attorney General Landry emphasized that our
Nation’s kids are not the federal government’s guinea pigs. “As a country that
failed so many children over the last couple of years, we owe it to them and
their parents to take a responsible path forward.”
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Joining Attorney General Landry in his letter to
the CDC are the attorneys general of Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah