A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000, the state’s health department announced this week.
Jeanette Breen, who operates Baldwin Midwifery on Long Island, administered the pellets as an alternative to vaccinations and then falsified their immunization records, the agency said Wednesday.
The scheme, which goes back least to the 2019-2020 school year, involved families throughout the state, but the majority reside on suburban Long Island. In 2019, New York ended a religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren.
The health department said immunization records of the children who received the falsified records have been voided, and their families must now prove the students are up-to-date with their required shots or at least in the process of getting them before they can return to school.
They would feel like they are saving the children from the evil government that try to give dangerous drugs to kids.
Is there any way to stop this kind of thinking in old people?
probably some of that eroded some trust among the general populace (not an anti vaxxer btw but wanted to add some context that some concerns aren’t totally unfounded)
Because Anti-vaxxers don’t exist in other countries…
It’s more that people are distrustful of large organisations in general (governments, business, religion). There’s a rightful suspicion of faceless entities, and I don’t think that can be “fixed”.
They didn’t think that way when they got old, they always felt that way then got old.