Video: Carlsbad Clinic Gives Kids Shots and Supplies
Carlsbad Pediatrics hosts Health and Wellness Fair and provides school kids with their “Tdap” booster and free school supplies.
A new California law, that went into effect on July 1, 2011, requires that all middle school and high school students receive a pertussis booster shot before going back to school this fall. Students in both public and private schools will be required to show proof that they have received the pertussis booster after their 10th birthday.
According to a news release from the county's Health and Human Services Agency, this law, AB 354, was passed as a result of an ongoing pertussis epidemic. This outbreak of what is commonly called "whooping cough" included 1,144 cases in San Diego County. In 2010, two local infants died from complications from the disease.
The Carlsbad Pediatrics clinic of North County Health Services hosted a health and wellness fair on Saturday, Aug. 20, to encourage kids to learn more about how to stay healthy—and to offer a chance for parents to get their child's pertussis or "Tdap" shot.
According to the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, more than 40,000 students countywide still have yet to provide proof they have received the booster shot. Parents have until 30 days after school begins to comply with the new law.
Carlsbad Pediatrics is a local clinic that will give the Tdap booster shot even to patients who don't have medical insurance.
Jeff C.
7:52 pm on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
In 2010, California had 10 infant deaths from pertussis out of over half a million births. There were no deaths to children over one, teens, or adults. California has 10 million residents under 18. Ten deaths in ten million minors, the math isn't hard, it's one in a million. So why does every teen need to get this shot? Short answer, they don't. There have been ZERO deaths in 2011. None.
Yet we are forcing millions of teens to get this shot?
The Tdap vaccine they are giving our kids has a high rate of serious adverse reactions. In clinical trials, 1.5% of recipients experienced serious adverse events (that's 1 out of every 67). The package insert list the following reported adverse events:
"Large injection site reactions, extensive limb swelling from the injection site beyond one or both joints. Injection site bruising, sterile abscess, Paraesthesia, hypoesthesia, Guillain-Barré syndrome, facial palsy, convulsion, syncope, myelitis, Anaphylactic reaction, hypersensitivity reaction (angioedema, edema, rash, hypotension), Pruritus, urticaria, Myositis, muscle spasm, Myocarditis"
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM142764.pdf
Parents - This choice is your and yours alone, please do your own research. The personal beliefs exemption is clearly spelled out in state law; your child does not need this shot to attend school.