Tennessee Fires Vaccine Chief For Promoting Vaccines

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If you want a clear and dangerous sign of how far down the anti-vaxx rabbit hole Republicans are going, look no further than what's going on in Tennessee

Tennessee legislators thought acknowledging the right of teenagers to get medical treatment undermined “parental authority.” Photo: Alisha Jucevic/Bloomberg via Getty Images If you want a clear and dangerous sign of how far down the anti-vaxx rabbit hole Republicans are going these days, look no further than the shenanigans going on in very red Tennessee the last month.

Sen. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, who repeatedly has spread vaccine misinformation during legislative hearings, insisted the state was misinterpreting its legal authority.Bowling urged [State Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa] Piercey to “take action” to “remove the fear, the concerns and the anger that has gone across the state as a result of letter.”

And then having inadvertently stirred up this right-wing hornet’s nest by doing her job, Fiscus got the ax this week. She did no go quietly, releasing a statement that made it pretty plain she thought the legislators who indirectly forced her firing were destructive yahoos, and that her agency superiors were cowards for shutting down vaccination education efforts that had nothing to do with COVID-19.

Now it’s true we have no absolute proof Fiscus was fired for the reasons she claims. But her former employers refused to give the Tennesseean any comment on her termination, and the bang-bang-bang timing of it all leaves little doubt about the chain of events.

 

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How about you write stories about the state you're named after and TN residents will keep our children safe from unproven vaccines. No and I repeat no evidence this vaccine benefits kids!

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IDIOTS!

The Darwin Variant. Fauci should say he did his best, and retire from this position. And free access to vaccines should go on no longer than 2 more months. Whoever doesn't get it needs to take responsibility for his of her lack of intelligence.

Take a stroll through any graveyard from before widespread childhood vaccination began, & before effective antibiotics - they're full of dead children who caught diseases that are now eradicated or easily preventable by vaccination. Except in Tennessee, apparently. GOPDelendaEst

Comparing vaccines: country of origin, safety, doses, price, efficacy, and approval. Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, Sinopharm, Bharat Biotech (COVAXIN), Medicago Which vaccines are highly effective against variants

hey genius MarshaBlackburn … isn’t this your back yard? not China?

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Tennessee's Fired Vaccine Chief Called The State's New Rule Barring Vaccine Outreach To Teens 'Toxic Leadership'“We have a legislature filled with people who are not scientists and not healthcare providers who have their own crazy ideas about vaccines,” Michelle Fiscus, Tennessee’s top vaccine official until sh This is inexcusable, TN. Of course...if you're a scientist or a doctor, you can make much more money working in your field...only useless idiots become politicians. TN GOP denies reality. See ya’ll in the ICU.
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