Tennessee to resume vaccine outreach efforts after 'pause' prompted by GOP backlash
A pediatrician does her job--has good performance evaluations but the Republicans have a hissy fit like little toddlers and she gets fired. I wish the teens in Ten. would have massive protests.
Tennessee to resume vaccine outreach efforts after 'pause' prompted by GOP backlash
The state's scaling back of its vaccination outreach drew national attention when its top vaccination official was fired last week after sparring with Republican lawmakers.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/tennessee-resume-vaccine-outreach-efforts-after-pause-prompted-gop-backlash-n1274861
01:58 /08:23 July 23, 2021, 1:16 PM CDT
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On Friday, state Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey declined to discuss Fiscus' departure, but addressed the larger issue with reporters, saying "there was a perception that we were marketing to children, and that totally was against our view of parental authority."
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In June, Republican lawmakers rebuked the health department for how it targeted online posts toward children, including a digital graphic that had a photo of a child with a Band-Aid and the words, "Tennesseans 12+ are eligible for vaccines. Give COVID-19 vaccines a shot."
The Tennessean newspaper, citing emails and an internal report, first reported last week that the state would halt all adolescent vaccine outreach, for all diseases. The paper also found that the health department had deleted some pro-vaccine posts on Facebook and Twitter and instructed employees to stop all vaccine-related posts aimed at teens before halting vaccine outreach posts altogether — and not only those related to the Covid vaccines.
The series of moves drew condemnation from state Democrats, who also blamed "anti-vaccine lawmakers from the controlling party" for removing Fiscus..........
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Outrage over teen vaccine outreach
Fiscus said tension with GOP lawmakers escalated when she publicized a document on Tennessee’s “Mature Minor Doctrine,” a state Supreme Court ruling from 1987 that states Tennesseans 14 to 18 years old may be treated “without parental consent unless the physician believes that the minor is not sufficiently mature to make his or her own health care decisions.”
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