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  • How to Submit an Immunization Exemption in Idaho

    Idaho Parents have a right to OPT their children out of some (or all) the state-mandated vaccines for daycare and school. There are 3 exemptions for the state medical, religious and ‘other’. Many schools will not disclose this fact, some schools will demand a form signed and completed by parents. This is NOT required by the statute. A signed parental statement of objection is all that is necessary for a parent to provide the school in order to invoke the right of vaccine exemption.

    No shots, no school is simply not true! 

    Parent Signed Statement of Exemption from Vaccine Mandate

    This is an example of text used by a parent submitting an vaccine exemption statement.

    I/We, _________________, pursuant to Idaho Code 39-4802 (2) and IDAPA 16.02.15.110 I/we submit this signed statement to ______________ school officials objecting to immunizations on religious OR other grounds.

    *Keep in mind you don’t have to clarify whether the exemption is for religious or other reasons. Any extra information they ask from you is used for marketing, tracking with the ultimate goal of removing the liability-free vaccine exemptions.

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    Idaho statute 39–4802(2) permits a parent/guardian:

    1. The right to choose whether to vaccinate their child.
    2. The right to opt-out without explanation of objection. This form, created by the Health Department is NOT REQUIRED by Idaho statute. Its requirement contradicts the statute which says clearly,

    “Any minor child whose parent or guardian has submitted a signed statement to school officials stating their objections on religious or other grounds shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter.” 

    After 3 years of persistence on the part of Health Freedom Idaho the form has been adjusted and Instructions to Parents regarding vaccine exemptions published by the Health and Welfare Department reflect this accurately. < See the new administrative rules for schools and daycares > 

    Health Freedom Idaho is resolved in stopping the deliberate attempt of the schools to violate parental authority to make health care choices and to protect the privacy of the medical information for their children. If you are having problem with schools who are not following law please contact us iamexempt@healthfreedomidaho.com 

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    HOTSPOTS! Vaccine exemptions putting the state at risk? Or is it simply propaganda to take away your parental authority?

  • Chicken Pox Vaccine: the Fine Print and Informed Consent

    Statistics released by the CDC show that 11% of Idaho parents are choosing to opt-out of the chickenpox vaccine for their kindergartner. Idaho parents who choose to opt-out of the chicken pox vaccine have done so after careful risk versus benefit analysis. Research reveals that complications from the chicken pox disease are at a rate of 1.4 per 100,000 (.0014%). Injury or reaction from the vaccine is 1 out of 1,481. Clearly, informed parents realize that the vaccine is riskier than the disease. 

    Moral Objection To Injecting Children With DNA From Aborted Fetuses

    Moral opposition to this vaccine comes in light of the disclosure that the chickenpox vaccine is produced in lung tissue obtained from two surgically aborted human fetuses (Exp. Cell Res. 37:614-636, 1965; Nature 227:168-170, 1970). Merck’s own literature states the vaccine contains “residual components” of fetal lung cells from a fetus of 14 weeks old.
    Informed consent, a fundamental tenet of ethical medical practice, dictates that citizens should have a choice whether or not they are injected with another person’s body cells. [Or anything else.]

    fetus pictured above is between 14 – 16 weeks old the same age as the fetuses used as spare parts for the vaccines injected into our children.

    Chicken Pox Vaccine Designed to Save $$ Not Lives

    From the medical and health-care cost perspectives, chicken pox vaccine is a loser. Two studies, one funded by Merck, found that only if lost wages are included for a parent to stay home with a sick child is there cost advantage to using chicken pox vaccine (JAMA 271: 375-381, 1994; J. Ped. 124(6): 869-874, 1994).

    While providing lifelong immunity, chicken pox disease [not vaccine] carries a very low risk of complications and death. Writing in the British medical journal, the Lancet (343: 1363, 1994), a voice of reason, Dr. Arthur Lavin, Department of Pediatrics, St. Luke’s Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, presented concerns that “argue strongly against the licensure of varicella vaccine for healthy children.” Lavin asserted: “[Chicken pox] is not major in the sense of disease mortality or morbidity. Therefore, if healthy children were fully vaccinated it is unclear in what significant way the health of the children or the economic health of their families would be improved.

    Summary:

    1. The chicken pox is a benign, self limiting childhood illness. 99.9% of children suffer NO complications and gain life-time immunity. Not a single Idaho child has died from the disease (or complications) in more than a decade.
    2. CDC reports that the Chicken Pox vaccine is NOT effective long term adding a second dose due to waning immunization rates.
    3. Chicken Pox vaccines can cause serious injury or even death. 1 out of every 1,481 children administered the VACCINE suffered adverse reaction.
    4. Complications from the chicken pox disease are EXTREMELY RARE. Complication occur in 1.4 per 100,000 cases of chicken pox in normal children.

    1. Benign Childhood Illness experienced by the entire population as children PRIOR to 1995 vaccine introduction.

    CDC reports there were  3,700,000 cases of chicken pox cases EACH YEAR prior to the vaccine and that there were 100 U.S. deaths each year (50 children and 50 adults)* the majority of those deaths had compromised immune systems or other health problems 

    Before the vaccine the chance of complications resulting in death from chicken pox was .00002702 <source>1

    For 99.9 percent of healthy children, chickenpox is a mild disease without complications. However, up to 20 percent of adults who get chickenpox develop severe complications such as pneumonia, secondary bacterial infections, and brain inflammation (which is reported in less than one percent of children who get chickenpox). Most children and adults who develop these serious complications have compromised immune systems or other health problems.

    2. Chicken Pox Vaccine NOT effective long term with ‘immunity waning’ so that CDC now suggests a second dose. <source> 2

    We give our children the chicken pox vaccine. This vaccine required by many schools and daycares carries a limited protection from the illness and is not guaranteed effective. The vaccine itself contains a LIVE VIRUS which is KNOWN to spread chickenpox to others.
    How Effective is the chicken pox vaccine?

    • Chickenpox vaccine effectiveness is reported to be 44 percent for any form of the disease and 86 percent for moderate to severe disease;

    Consider this. 

    A close friend, has seven children at home. The teen was required to be ‘updated’ on his vaccines in Junior High because the CDC is now acknowledging that the vaccine ‘wears out’ over time. So, in order to continuing attending school activities, he received the chicken pox vaccine. Within days, his elder sibling came down with the illness. Unfortunately, she wasn’t aware that she was sick until she was away from home on her Senior Trip to Disneyland. The vaccine cause her to expose her entire class and those around her at Disneyland to the illness.  Arriving back home, contagious, she then spread the illness to younger siblings, many had already been vaccinated with chicken pox vaccine in the past several years.

    This one family’s story prove that:

    1. The chicken pox vaccine sheds and others do catch the chicken pox disease.

    2. The chicken pox vaccine is not always effective.

    3. Danger of complications from the chicken pox illness increased with age.

    Most concerning is that Chickenpox is much more serious when caught by previously unexposed adults, when it can lead to pneumonia.Mass use of chickenpox vaccine by children in the U.S. has removed natural boosting of immunity in the population, which was protective against shingles, and now adults are experiencing a shingles epidemic.

    From the story above its obvious, the vaccinated individual could spread the disease to the immuno-compromised, who can develop septicaemia or meningitis. 

    4. The vaccine is one of convenience, not about saving lives.

    Is chicken pox really dangerous? The current estimated death rate for chicken pox is only 1.4 per 100,000 cases (0.0014%) in normal children. It rises to 30.9 deaths per I00,000c ases (0.0309%) in adults.

    As you can see,the death rate is still quite small. Although, it is FAR better to contract chicken pox as a child, than to wait until the adult years.

    Its worth noting chickenpox illness is more of a concern of economics than of deadly outbreak. Children are banned from childcare during the long course of the contagious window of chickenpox, a parent has to take up to a week or more off work to look after their afflicted kids at home.  The CDC and local health departments use the ‘time from work’ reason to have children vaccinated.

    5. Is the Chicken Pox Vaccine itself dangerous? YES.
    Some children will have life long injury from the vaccine itself.

    Chickenpox vaccine is already associated with adverse effects in one in 1,481 vaccinations.1

    Using the MedAlerts search engine, as of September 30, 2015 there had been 3,358 serious adverse events reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) in connection with chickenpox and varicella-containing vaccines since 1990. Over half of those serious chickenpox vaccine-related adverse events occurring in children six years old and under. Of these chickenpox-vaccine related adverse event reports to VAERS, 161were deaths, with over 60% of the deaths occurring in children under six years of age.
    visit NVIC for more important information about Chicken Pox Disease and Vaccine. 

    IDAHO PARENTS who choose to opt-out of the chicken pox vaccine have done so after careful risk verus benefit analysis. Idaho statue permits a parent’s choice, however, the Idaho Health and Welfare department chooses to attempt to harass and intimidate parents with letters sent home to parents with wording such as; “I also understand that it is my responsibility to provide the school with proof of the vaccines above and that failure to do so will result in exclusion of my child from school.”

    Vaccine Tracking and Exemptions.

    Contrary to the Health Department’s propaganda, Idaho has vaccine exemptions available to all children attending school and daycare. Parents have become educated and according to the CDC numbers, 11% of parents choose to opt-out of the chicken pox vaccine for their kindergarten-aged children. These statistics come from Idaho’s vaccine tracking database. Each child enrolled in school is entered into the database without a parent’s acknowledgement. Learn more about how to opt your child out of the tracking system. https://hfi.designbyparrish.com/iris-opt-out 

    Supporting a parents right to informed consent is a key concern of Health Freedom Idaho. Support us as we protect your right to choose medical procedures for your child. JOIN us!

    SOURCES:
    1. http://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Chickenpox/chickenpoxfacts.aspx as confirmed by CDC’s own number: https://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/surveillance/monitoring-varicella.html
    2.0 https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/197/7/944/798673/Primary-Vaccine-Failure-after-1-Dose-of-Varicella
    failure rate of chicken pox vaccine: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22659447

    1. http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/193060

    Conditional entry letter – does NOT provide information to parents that vaccine exemptions are available: https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/Portals/0/Health/Idaho%20Immunizations/School_Conditional_Admission_Form_English.pdf

  • Is the Hotspot Vaccine Exemptions Campaign A Fear Mongering Set Up For Vaccine Mandates?

    Do you believe that parents should make the health decisions for their own children? If so, you aren’t alone. The numbers of parents opting out of some or all vaccines appear to be increasing based on the nationwide tracking of our children’s vaccine status as they enter kindergarten. That’s right, your child’s vaccination status is being tracked. 

    In Idaho, your family is AUTOMATICALLY ENTERED into the tri-state tracking system by health care providers, child care providers, and school officials. While you can ask for your information to be removed from the Health and Welfare tracking system, it can and will, register it back in at any time by authorized users (doctor, schools, daycare). In other words, if you don’t submit your request to the schools, doctors, daycare providers that you wish to have your private medical information REMAIN PRIVATE and never entered into the system, they will assume that you want to be tracked.

    Your children’s medical information is likely in the database RIGHT NOW. You must request that your child’s medical information removed from the IRIS database.

    ACTION ITEM >>> REQUEST YOUR CHILD’S MEDICAL INFORMATION PURGED FROM TRI-STATE TRACKING SYSTEM KNOWN AS IRIS.

    However, once your information is shared within the government tracking database, authorized 3rd parties can take the information and use it as they wish. (Notice the newest marketing material labeling Idaho’s vaccine exemptions as a hot spot. Or the Idaho vaccination rate map available online.) While you can opt out of IRIS and purge your child’s information from their IRIS system, you are unable to purge it from the third party systems once it has been accessed.

    Tracking your child’s vaccine status harmless? Think again.

    Tracking childhood vaccinations has nothing to do with local health, it’s all about marketing. They are using your child’s private medical information to drive their sales and increase their profit. When you allow your child’s vaccination exemption status to be tracked you are participating in the marketing campaign designed to target your family as ‘public health enemy’ number one.

    If you choose to opt out of even one vaccine, your family is presented as a public enemy.  Look at these headlines! These are obvious marketing campaigns intended to sway public opinion.  Their marketing ploy is to create division in the public against those who don’t comply with the 78 CDC recommended vaccinations.

    Of course, the obvious question for the fear mongers is: If vaccines are effective, why are they worried about other people’s vaccination status?

    Why are parents opting out?

    With the rise in the number of kindergartners who enter school without ALL their shots, the marketing piece serves as a “wake-up call” to the parents blindly following doctor’s orders and the CDC recommendations. Really this question should be why are so many families opting out if vaccines are really ‘safe and effective’? 

    Parents have been empowered with information and truth. Reading vaccine inserts, reviewing ingredient lists and looking at scientific journals that accessible to the public. They are realizing that there are a lack of scientific studies for safety and effectiveness of vaccines. They are waking up to the truth that vaccines permanently damage, injure and cause death to children and adults. Families who suffered intense loss have NOTHING to gain by sharing their stories except the hope that their loss will prevent further destruction of the health and lives of other children.

    Vaccine Injury: If the numbers from VAERS and HHS are correct – only 1% of vaccine injuries are reported and only 1/3 of the petitions are compensated – then, upwards of 99% of vaccine injuries go unreported…

    Media wants your child to be labeled the source of all “outbreaks”.  It begs the question, “What about under-vaccinated adults?”

    The new “hot spots” study was authored by a vaccine industry insider (Dr. Peter Hotez) who is a patent holder of vaccines, and fails a really simple test: it never contemplates the vaccination status of any ADULTS in these hot spots, despite the fact that they represent 76% of the population, are known by the CDC to have low vaccination rates, and the fact that vaccines wane over time. Why is the media so credulous to these industry-sponsored scare pieces? Read More

    Fear mongering a set up for vaccine mandates?

    First create the problem, then present the solution. That is how marketing works right?

    First, they used the tracking of your child’s vaccine record to ‘create’ a threat. Their solution has already been declared – reduce vaccine exemptions and create vaccine mandates. Those who profit from their liability-free vaccines want mandates just as they have in California. Imagine the $$ signs dancing in front of their eyes – their product forced on every school child without any loss from damages or injury.  In 2014 the global vaccine market was worth over 32 billion dollars and was expected to reach over 59 billion by the year 2020.(Those damages are paid from the taxes added to each vaccine.)  

    Were you aware that drug companies donated millions to California lawmakers before vaccine debate and the Disneyland Outbreak of 2015? 

    Did you know that the vaccination status of California before mandated school vaccines was 97.46%?

    They are using FEAR to take away our FREEDOM

    What can be done?

    Step 1: Get your child’s information PURGED from their tracking system. Be vigilant to keep it out of their hands for marketing purpose.

    Step 2: Be aware that those 15 areas labeled as “hotspots” will also be targeted for vaccine mandates. Watch AND PARTICIPATE your local elections. Check on the elected officials funding! Expose those who are being influenced by pharmaceutical companies. Those individuals who actively and openly support health freedom – those are the people who need your support. It doesn’t matter if they are in your district or not! Theirs is another vote for freedom should bills be drafted restricting vaccine exemptions.

    What else do you think can be done to preserve health freedom and the right of parents to opt-out of toxic laden vaccinations?

  • The 1st WIN FOR HFI! HB 91 IRIS EXPANSION VOTED DOWN

    The 1st WIN FOR HFI! HB 91 IRIS EXPANSION VOTED DOWN

    Idaho HB 91 was designed to further expand the Idaho immunization tracking system. The greatest concerns of IRIS is the lack of privacy, security and the inability of parents to confirm their child’s private medical information is expunged when a family choose to OPT OUT. This system is in place to record vaccinations /immunizations (or lack thereof) of children. As Representative Packer said, the State doesn’t feel parents are responsible enough to keep accurate records. Your child’s medical information is automatically entered into a system accessible by health department vendors, health officials, doctors, schools and registered daycare. HB 91 would expand the data tracking with the mandated inclusion of adults.

    If you wish to opt your child out of the system you may do so by visiting: the Health and Welfare website

    CONCERNS OVER THE OPT OUT SYSTEM: 
    Citizens are unable to OPT OUT of this central database until AFTER the child’s private medical information is uploaded into the central database. The Health Department processes the written OPT – OUT request allowing the department several weeks to do so. This request must be made each and every time a person visits a medical facility that has the capability of administering vaccinations.

    To learn more details on the bill and the concerns from Health Freedom Idaho read our article.

    Numerous Health Freedom Idaho members called and emailed their concerns to the representatives. We were heard! And the results was 44 of our state representatives voted down HB 91 a bill fraught with privacy invasion. 

    Watch the entire House Debate from the archives:
    http://lso.legislature.idaho.gov/MediaArchive/ShowCommitteeOrMedia.do;jsessionid=92559A4CF43D605E802FDE4D77DC0D5Fchives

    How did your rep vote? Take time to send correspondence of thanks or perhaps a question why they voted for the expansion.
    THEY ARE LISTENING! Keep educating the legislators of your concerns.

    THANK THE 44 WHO VOTED AGAINST HB 91:
    (posted in small groups to avoid spam filters) send 4 separate emails of thanks addressing each group in the BCC field: 

    hscott@house.idaho.gov, pshepherd@house.idaho.gov, ssyme@house.idaho.gov, jthompson@house.idaho.gov, cntroy@house.idaho.gov, jtrujillo@house.idaho.gov, jvanderwoude@house.idaho.gov, ryoungblood@house.idaho.gov, czito@house.idaho.gov, bzollinger@house.idaho.gov

    shartgen@house.idaho.gov, lluker@house.idaho.gov, jholtzclaw@house.idaho.gov, pjordan@house.idaho.gov, rkerby@house.idaho.gov, mkingsley@house.idaho.gov, dmanwaring@house.idaho.gov, pmcdonald@house.idaho.gov, jmonks@house.idaho.gov, dmoon@house.idaho.gov, mmoyle@house.idaho.gov, nater@house.idaho.gov, jpalmer@house.idaho.gov

    lclow@house.idaho.gov, tdayley@house.idaho.gov, gdemordaunt@house.idaho.gov, sdixon@house.idaho.gov, jgannon@house.idaho.gov, tgestrin@house.idaho.gov, pgiddings@house.idaho.gov, khanks@house.idaho.gov, sharris@house.idaho.gov,

    randerst@house.idaho.gov,armstrong@house.idaho.gov, vbar@house.idaho.gov, mblanksma@house.idaho.gov, gchaney@house.idaho.gov, jboyle@house.idaho.gov, vburtenshaw@house.idaho.gov, gchaney@house.idaho.gov, dcheatham@house.idaho.gov

    Is your child in the IRIS database without your knowledge? 
    Here is the information to OPT OUT. http://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/Health/IdahoImmunizationProgram/InformationforParentsFamilies/ImmunizationRecords/OnlineIRISOptOutForm/tabid/2495/Default.aspx
    All children born in Idaho are automatically enrolled. All child who visit a primary care physician are automatically enrolled. All children who submit records to a daycare or school are automatically enrolled. 

  • Privacy Denied. Medical Data Tracking Expanded. HB 91

    Privacy Denied. Medical Data Tracking Expanded. HB 91

    HB 91 will expand an system ALREADY in place that denies a child’s right to privacy, exposes children’s private medical information to State and third parties and violates HIPPA. Now they wish to expand the tracking of private medical information to adults. This system will mandate that adult’s private/personal medical information entered into the State tracking system within 28 days of a doctor’s visit. It is only AFTER your information is uploaded to the system that you have the opportunity to opt-out.  Once that PHI (private health information) is sent out, there is no expunging it from anyone’s record EXCEPT IDHW, meaning your medical information is now out in the open, with no chance of it being private again, and all without your consent.Once you opt out, the burden is on you to ensure that H&W has actually expunged that info (and remember, other 3rd parties do not have to). This is not just any time you go to the doctor for vaccinations. This is every single time you go to a pharmacist, an ER, an urgent care, to get a mammogram, etc. It is hospital policy to ask patients about vaccination status every time they go in, and there is pressure to give you a flu shot and a DTaP/TDaP booster every time you go in for any kind of injury, especially when you don’t remember when you last received them, even if you are sick (many hospitals even require pressure to be put on those who have immune disorders). 

    This is wrong, and dangerous. “Intent” of the law doesn’t matter so much as the possibility for the law to be misused against the people. Not to mention the inherent violations of privacy written into this particular one.
    TELL LEGISLATORS NO ON HB 91.

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    HISTORY:

    -IRIS was originally created to allow parents a centralized place to “store” their children’s vaccination records in case they lost their hard copies, and it would be easily accessible to parents, other legal guardians, child care providers, and health care workers if the parents allowed them access to it.

    -IRIS was also an opt-in program originally, so when a parent went in for a well child check, they could sign a waiver (along with the HIPAA form) that allowed their doctor to put their child’s vaccination information into IRIS (because it is private health information, protected by HIPAA).

    -In 2012, IRIS became an opt-out program because doctors complained that the one extra page of paperwork was “too much work”. Now most parents don’t even know their children’s PHI is in IRIS. They can technically opt out by submitting a written statement to IDHW, but it doesn’t function that seemlessly.

    -In 2015, provisions were made to allow 3rd parties access to our children’s vaccination records by omitting the section that previously required records to be expunged from 3rd parties as well when parents opted out of IRIS.

    DANGERS:

    • Because it is an opt-out program, the majority of parents do not know their children’s information is in IRIS. IDHW sends out a paper shortly after your child is born saying that they are enrolled into IRIS, but you receive that about a month after they are born and in the mix of all the other paperwork you get at the hospital or from 3rd parties after a child is born, it doesn’t stick out as anything important unless you already know what you’re looking at.
    • If H91 goes through, your personal medical records will be on file with IDHW until you opt out (and DHW states that it may take up to 2 weeks for you to opt out officially and your records be expunged from H&W)
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    • Your information will be given to third parties that DO NOT have to expunge your information, nor do these 3rd parties have to disclose to you that they HAVE your medical information (now, there are 3rd parties, but they are named in the current statute, whereas 2 years ago they were not in the original bill).
    • You cannot just “opt out” of the program before you are entered into it. What H91 does is take it a step further MANDATING that all providers put that medical information into IRIS. Only afterwards can you “opt” out. Providers have a 28-day window to provide IRIS with this information, and IDHW has a 2 week window to expunge your information IF they have your information by the time your provider sends it over. Within the time frame that your provider sends the information to IRIS and the time that H&W expunges that information, H&W will be sending that PHI to 3rd parties without one’s consent and usually, without their knowledge. Once that PHI is sent out, there is no expunging it from anyone’s record EXCEPT IDHW, meaning your medical information is now out in the open, with no chance of it being private again, and all without your consent.

    Particularly since this is done without one’s consent, or even knowledge, it is a violation of HIPAA. Once you opt out, the burden is on you to ensure that H&W has actually expunged that info (and remember, other 3rd parties do not have to). This is not just any time you go to the doctor for vaccinations. This is every single time you go to a pharmacist, an ER, an urgent care, to get a mammogram, etc. It is hospital policy to ask patients about vaccination status every time they go in, and there is pressure to give you a flu shot and a Dtp booster every time you go in for any kind of injury, especially when you don’t remember when you last received them, even if you are sick (many hospitals even require pressure to be put on those who have immune disorders). This is wrong, and dangerous. “Intent” of the law doesn’t matter so much as the possibility for the law to be misused against the people. Not to mention the inherent violations of privacy written into this particular one.

    Thank you for your time and for being a representative for the people

    UPDATE: 

    WIN FOR HEALTH FREEDOM IDAHO
    Adult Immunizaiton Tracking
    VOTED DOWN

    Health Freedom Idaho members called and emailed their concerns to the representatives. They were heard! And the results was 44 of our state representatives voted down of the privacy invasion. 

    Watch the entire House Debate from the archives:
    http://lso.legislature.idaho.gov/MediaArchive/ShowCommitteeOrMedia.do;jsessionid=92559A4CF43D605E802FDE4D77DC0D5Fchives

  • HB 91: Invasion of Privacy (IRIS)

    HB 91: Invasion of Privacy (IRIS)

    Do you know what IRIS is?

    It is a sneaky invasion of privacy regarding one’s private health information (PHI). IRIS has historically been an immunization registry for children’s vaccination records, but is now being used to assimilate the medical information regarding one’s vaccinations (or lack thereof) without the knowledge or consent of a patient or their guardians. Our children’s vaccination records are already in IRIS, and IRIS is expanding to all adults in the State of Idaho as well.

    That’s right! The Legislature wants to expand their data tracking information to include all adults with HB 91. The newest invasion of privacy has passed committee and will be heard on the house floor Feb 21st. If passed it will move onto the Senate Health Committee and Senate Floor. Time is limited we MUST TELL LEGISLATORS TO OPPOSE HB 91 the bill that will require the State tracking of the  immunizations of all adults.  

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    Talking Points:

    1) No other pharmaceutical product use is reported to the state like this and this is a violation of medical privacy.

    2)  CDC has openly stated that vaccine registries are a tool to identify areas of “undervaccination” so that they can be “addressed” and brought into “compliance.”   https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6133a2.htm  The healthcare choices Idahoans make are Idahoans’ and there is no need for our choices to be “addressed” or brought into “compliance”. This is an attack on our health freedoms disguised as just a little information gathering. Given that the pharmaceutical companies have nearly 300 vaccines in development and would like to see those used by the entire populace, it is not hard to see why CDC wants to monitor the public’s use of vaccines so it can “address areas of undervaccination.”

    3) We know from the problems many parents have reported that many parents have no idea that IRIS (the Idaho Immunization Registry) even exists, no idea that their children’s information is being entered into the system, no idea that the registry is voluntary and that they may opt out completely yet Idaho Code 39-4803 explicitly states that the registry is voluntary. Several years ago we fought the extension of IRIS to adults because code was already not being followed and we won.   https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title39/T39CH48/SECT39-4803/

    4) Given violations of I.C. 39-4803 pertaining to IRIS and children, we are very concerned that adults will not be aware there is a system, that the system is opt out, and that their private medical information will be entered into it. If they aren’t aware the system even exists or that it is voluntary, how is the system truly voluntary? If parents are not being informed of the existence and voluntary nature of IRIS, why should we trust that this information will be explained to adults?

    5) There is nothing in HB 91 that explicitly requires those who administer vaccines to notify vaccine recipients of the existence of IRIS or the fact that IRIS is voluntary but that vaccine recipients must opt out. 

    6) There is nothing in HB 91 that ensures vaccine administrators follow the law. Who will check and ensure the law is followed?

    7) We already know that the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has violated code with respect to IRIS. Several years ago when Dr. Christine Hahn of the Department of Health and Welfare testified in front of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, she stated that IRIS had already entered the personal private information of Idaho adults who had received a flu vaccine into the system. This is illegal. There is no code that allows for the private medical information of adults to be entered into IRIS. If they’ve already broken the law, why should we trust that they will follow it now?