4d ago

Washington, other West Coast states, go against CDC, recommend hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns

www.kuow.org

A CDC panel voted on Friday to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine only to the babies of mothers who test positive for the virus, and to suggest that, for all other babies, doctors and parents should have a conversation about the risks and benefits of the shot, a process known as “shared clinical decision-making.”

That goes against what the federal government has recommended for nearly 35 years and against the guidance of medical organizations…

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Will the CDC's bullshit recommendation be used by insurance companies to deny coverage for the shots?
- Of course, that's what this always been about. Insurance companies will no longer have to cover the cost for a vaccination in EVERY newborn. This adds BILLIONS in profit, especially over time.
- Yup it will allow them to shirk duties and push their agenda. A financial windfall. Maybe RFK has been on their payroll this entire time. Lobbying, kickbacks, and bribes need to go. Illegal as fuck, jail time, and they need to go through all politicians, judges, official, and get rid of every corrupt motherfucker on the take out there.
There isn't really anything I can add to what's already been said about these malicious idiots, only that I'm so very grateful to live in Washington state where sanity still prevails.
- Speaking of healthcare in general, have you ever checked out Whole Washington?
  They're a group advocating for statewide universal healthcare, and if we can all get them well-known enough, we can get a vote-able ballot option to give nearly everyone in Washington universal healthcare, at a lower cost than our collective current costs!
  (Pledge to sign!)
- Well... at least for everything west of the mountains.
  East of the mountains, not so much.
  
  Depends on where you mean. Spokane city is pretty purple and the city council is more left-leaning than ever: https://www.inlander.com/news/progressives-and-moderates-dominate-conservatives-in-local-races-flipping-a-spokane-council-seat-and-ousting/article_ef72e2af-a02f-4a5f-966d-9813d8ba585f.html . They just passed a ban on algorithmic rent price fixing by landlords for example.
  When you leave Spokane, the closer you get to Idaho the more regressive things get. Spokane and Spokane Valley are night and day in my view - no good reason for going into the latter. The same is true when you head north (hwy 2, 395) and south, at least until you get to Pullman. I haven't spent much time in central WA but my impression is that it's pretty right-wing compared to Spokane or Puget Sound, so yeah.
  That said, I've lived in Seattle and the S. Sound and once you get out of the city proper and away from the Eastside and close-in suburbs like Issaquah (Fall City, Snoqualmie and North Bend are probably considered suburbs now too!), and also out of places like Olympia/Tumwater, it gets redneck in a hurry.

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