Nurses Who Vaccinate proudly supports Kaliah’s Law which would notify communities and citizens of ongoing epidemics in their neighborhood. Once alerted, residents could seek information from their medical physicians and their State Department of Health, regarding boosters and proper precautions. Nurses are essential in public health education and prevention - Kaliah’s Law is an excellent intervention for pro-active nurses to support...." For more click here http://nurseswhovaccinate.blogspot.com/2012/07/kaliahs-law.html
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If we want these deaths to stop, we need to take action! Please share our event and ask everyone to invite their friends, it is open to the public! We have a Facebook page with a link to the states legislators to tell them you want to be informed if there is an epidemic in your area, and you want them to tell everyone about the fact that all Whooping Cough vaccine, including the Tdap booster shot we are getting now wears off, and people need to be told that so they get another booster in a few years. Right now, there is no one responsible for doing that. They do not have to say anything, and they don't. The Washington state Department of Health wouldn't say anything here about our epidemic, until we screamed at them and threatened them with bad press! They waited 3 months after the Whooping cough epidemic started! They waited until in their own words "It was the worst epidemic in 40 years! Now in their own words, it is the worst epidemic in 70 years. Don't you think they should have told us sooner? Three things we need: #1. Sign the Change.org petition here: http://www.change.org/petitions/require-doh-send-notice-to-citizens-in-epidemic-area-kaliah-s-bill #2. Go to the event page and select your home state Stop Whooping Cough Facebook page to find the link to your local legislators https://www.facebook.com/events/331129430305528/ #3. Click the link to call or send an email to your local legislators, telling them you want Kaliah's Law in your state. Say or send something like this: "I want Kaliah's Law in my state. I want to be sent a notification as soon as an epidemic reaches my community. I don't want to find out after it is too late to do anything to protect my family from any communicable disease." July 20th marks the first day of Kaliah's short but powerful life! She was only here for 27 days and we want to make each day count! We begin our 27 days for Kaliah on July 20th and go until August 16th, the day she left us. Each day in the drive, our goal is to get at least 100 signatures on Kaliah's bill to show public support, and send at least 10 comments to legislators in your local area. No matter what state! We HAVE posted links at the top of each of our 50 state Facebook pages where you can find the phone numbers, email addresses and mailing addresses to the legislators in that state with a sample of what we want to say. Please choose your state and vote and send as many messages as possible between those dates to let them know we want to know if there is an epidemic in our community, and we want them to share the fact that the Whooping Cough vaccines wear off in around 5 years with all citizens, so everyone knows they need to be vaccinated every 5 years in order to end Whooping Cough in our country. We need more volunteers to put just a couple hours a week, posting local outbreak information on each states page, please let me know if you can help us out! Contact your local legislator to tell them you want Kaliah's Law in your state! Here is a link to the Change.org petition, please sign and share, then click the link below for your legislators info and send messages everyday, as many times a day as you wish! Watch as we change this world for the better in Kaliah's name! 27 Days for Kaliah! Let's go! http://www.change.org/petitions/require-doh-send-notice-to-citizens-in-epidemic-area-kaliah-s-bill Here is the link for Washington State, please share with as many people as you can to show support for this law. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/ Here is what we want to say: Please support legislation to make the Department of Health tell the public when there is an epidemic in their area. Right now there is no requirement for us to be told and we want to be told as soon as the epidemic threshold has been reached! We are asking for Kaliah's Bill. Just send a notice to all households in the area of the epidemic, as soon as the predefined epidemic threshold is reached, it is as simple as that. The other thing we are trying to tell them is this: There is no natural immunity to Whooping Cough! Our research has led us to what we feel it the root cause of these epidemics. It is the 92% of unvaccinated adults in the nation that think they are vaccinated that are spreading this. We need to be telling everyone that the shot they were told they could only have one of per lifetime, actually only lasts a few years! We should also them the Tdap, the booster they are getting now, will also last only a few years, and someone will give them an actual length after they get more data. If you don't want to have Whooping Cough epidemics, most of the 92% of unvaccinated adults would have to get vaccinated so they quit spreading it around. Do you know how many people that is? It is around 225,000,000! Yes, that is around 225 million. Most babies that die get it from their parent or a family member. It is horrible for babies, kids and adults, causing cracked ribs and broken blood vessels and life long lung problems. If it comes back with a vengeance, you will understand why the vaccine was invented in the first place. My aunt died from it, my niece Chelsey Charles' baby Kaliah died from it, how many more do we need to give? They used to quarantine whole households for weeks at a time before the vaccine was invented. I am not trying to tell people that do not believe in vaccination that they have to vaccinate. It is their choice. I would research every drug, and decide on an individual basis if they were right for me or my family. Do not blindly believe anyone! There is a lot of false information and finger pointing on both sides of this issue. Listen to people you trust, preferably ones that have some credentials in the medical community. I do not want to get into that debate here at all. Research it and choose for yourself. I looked at all of the data. In fact my initial premise was to blame the anti vaccine people. I learned that is not the issue here at all. I am saying it is the 225 million unvaccinated adults causing these epidemics, and, if we want to be protected from epidemics like this one, most of us would have to be vaccinated against Whooping Cough or Pertussis every 5 years or so. Check out 27 Days for Kaliah beginning Sunday July 20th and running until the day of her death August 20th! Kaliah's law and spreading this message. https://www.facebook.com/events/331129430305528/ For more info see our blog at http://kennethaskorner.weebly.com/ 27 Days for Kaliah! July 20th to August 16th! Please click link below for more information!7/18/2012 https://www.facebook.com/events/331129430305528/ July 20th marks the first day of Kaliah's short but powerful life! She was only here for 27 days and we want to make each day count! We begin our 27 days for Kaliah on July 20th and go until August 16th, the day she left us. Each day in the drive, our goal is to get at least 100 signatures on Kaliah's bill to show public support, and send at least 10 comments to legislators in your local area. No matter what state! We Will post links at the top of each of our 50 pages to list the phone numbers, email addresses and mailing addresses to the legislators in that state with a sample of what we want to say. Please choose your state and vote and send as many messages as possible between those dates to let them know we want to know if there is an epidemic in our community, and we want them to share the fact that the Whooping Cough vaccines wear off in around 5 years with all citizens, so everyone knows they need to be vaccinated every 5 years in order to end Whooping Cough in our country. We need more volunteers to put just a couple hours a week, posting local outbreak information on each states page, please let me know if you can help us out! Contact your local legislator to tell them you want Kaliah's Law in your state! Each State will have a link to their own legislators pinned to the top during this period. Here is a link to the Change.org petition, please sign and share, then click the link below for your legislators info and send messages everyday, as many times a day as you wish! Watch as we change this world for the better in Kaliah's name! 27 Days for Kaliah! Let's go! http://www.change.org/petitions/require-doh-send-notice-to-citizens-in-epidemic-area-kaliah-s-bill Here is the link for Washington State, please share with as many people as you can to show support for this law. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/ The CDC is supposed to be the leading authority in diseases, yet in their latest article, Alison Patti, whom I asked to come here in February to help with the epidemic but wouldn't, BARELY even mentions the main issue here. "Patti says in the email, "We also want to vaccinate everyone else who will be caring for the infant, creating a circle of protection. This includes dads, grandparents, older siblings, nannies, childcare workers, etc." She speaks about how great the statistics are among children, with only a partial sentence dedicated to saying anything about the 92% of adults who are not vaccinated. The Whooping Cough reservoir. Again, DOH, CDC and any other "expert" on Pertussis: When the vaccine manufacturer made the vaccine safer in the 1990's, it also reduced the effectiveness of the vaccine, as well as how long it lasted. This information was never shared with the public, so they went along thinking they were still protected if they had that vaccination. The truth is, that since around the year 2000, everyone who had received the vaccine was no longer protected and that is when this great Whooping Cough reservoir began. Add to that the unavailability of a booster shot until the year 2005, and again, not sharing it with the public, only healthcare providers. Then in 2010, California has the worst epidemic in recent history, killing 9 babies in the process. Still they say nothing to the rest of the nation about the Tdap, only stressing childhood vaccine and those around babies. That leaves out the population that need the vaccine- teens, adults without children, senior citizens, etc.. Most adults do not know they are not protected. This is the number one cause of these epidemics, yet they still do not say it. AGAIN, 90% OF ADULTS NATIONWIDE HAVE NOT HAD THE BOOSTER SHOT BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW THIER CHILDHOOD VACCINE HAS WORN OFF! SEND THEM A NOTICE AND END THIS PREVENTABLE DISEASE FOREVER! Kaliah died here in August of 2011, and still nothing. We went on the radio to tell people about the epidemic and the Department of Health came on after to tell everyone that they had expected it to be a bad year for Pertussis. If that was the case, why didn’t they warn us? Kaliah may still be alive if they had. They still were not going to warn us in April, until we forced their hand by threatening them with bad press. They would not call the CDC, the CDC would not come, they spent more money trying to keep us quiet than on actual education and outreach. There was a whole team devoted to making sure we didn't make waves. Millions upon millions of dollars have been spent fighting this disease. If they spent the money to send out a Public Health warning to everyone, it could be over. I did the math and told the vaccine manufacturer that if they would send out a notice, they would stand to make billions in profit. Sounds of Pertussis, a branch of Sanofi Pasteur, has been spending a fortune on this for years now. They could recoup all of that if they sent out a notice that warned their vaccine was not the same as it used to be. Please be advised now, that the Tdap vaccine everyone is getting right now is not long lasting either. They say you can only have one dose per lifetime, but it actually only lasts around 5 years as well. So, in 5 years, we are all going to need another booster shot, but who is going to tell us, and when are they going to tell us? http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/212267/0/Whooping-Cough-Is-On-Pace-To-Break-Yearly-Record Paul Offit, one of the leading vaccine experts in the nation, supports our request for legislation to make the DOH warn citizens as soon as an epidemic reaches the threshold they set each year. It took them 3 months to tell Washington they were in the middle of the biggest epidemic in nearly 50 years! By then it was too late to stop. Now, we are in the middle of the worst epidemic in 70 years! Kaliah died in August of last year and they still wouldn't tell anyone. We (Kaliah's family) set up the first Booster shot clinics, the first Public Service Announcements, and the postcards that were sent to all residents in our County, because they wouldn't do anything! They did not release any of the free press they have available, and when I asked them to create a Public Service Announcement, they said they would have to lay off one of the three nurses they have on staff to do that. They said that it was enough for them to tell doctors about it and use the free press from stories like Kaliah's. They wouldn't call the CDC when I asked in February, they said it wouldn't do any good because they would only come out for a week and that would not help. They wouldn't say the word Tdap or Pertussis, because they didn't think the public would understand the terms. We had to threaten them to get them to say or do anything! The booster shot everyone is getting also only lasts five years, but they are telling everyone they can only have one per lifetime, until they have more data. That means, in five years, everyone that is getting the shot now will have to get it again. Who is going to tell them? How long is it going to take them to tell us next time????? I am not willing to trust that they will do anything differently when we have another epidemic, so we need a law to make them. Kaliah's law - When an epidemic reaches the threshold set by the Department of Health, they need to send a warning notice to every household in the affected area. Simple as that. Please show your support of Kaliah's law by contacting your local legislator, and letting them know you expect them to support a law to warn citizens if there is an epidemic in their area! Follow this link to find who your legislator is and how to contact them, then ask them to support Kaliah's Law to send a warning notice to citizens if there is an epidemic in their area! Here is a link to find your Washington State Senators and Representatives. It is simple, just click and enter your zip code- everything is there- email, phone address, and website! Please let them know you expect them to support this law! http://apps.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/ Here is a list of all states and a link to there reps! Find your state in the list below, then click the "Like" button with the thumb's up logo at the top of the page. Alabama: http://www.facebook.com/CongressAL Alaska: http://www.facebook.com/CongressAK Arizona: http://www.facebook.com/CongressAZ Arkansas: http://www.facebook.com/CongressAR California: http://www.facebook.com/CongressCA Colorado: http://www.facebook.com/CongressCO Connecticut: http://www.facebook.com/CongressCT Delaware: http://www.facebook.com/CongressDE Florida: http://www.facebook.com/CongressFL Georgia: http://www.facebook.com/CongressGA Hawaii: http://www.facebook.com/CongressHI Idaho: http://www.facebook.com/CongressID Iowa: http://www.facebook.com/CongressIA Illinois: http://www.facebook.com/CongressIL Indiana: http://www.facebook.com/CongressIN Kansas: http://www.facebook.com/CongressKS Kentucky: http://www.facebook.com/CongressKY Louisiana: http://www.facebook.com/CongressLA Maine: http://www.facebook.com/CongressME Maryland: http://www.facebook.com/CongressMD Massachusetts: http://www.facebook.com/CongressMA Michigan: http://www.facebook.com/CongressMI Minnesota: http://www.facebook.com/CongressMN Mississippi: http://www.facebook.com/CongressMS Missouri: http://www.facebook.com/CongressMO Montana: http://www.facebook.com/CongressMT Nebraska: http://www.facebook.com/CongressNE Nevada: http://www.facebook.com/CongressNV New Hampshire: http://www.facebook.com/CongressNH New Jersey: http://www.facebook.com/CongressNJ New Mexico: http://www.facebook.com/CongressNM New York: http://www.facebook.com/CongressNY North Carolina: http://www.facebook.com/CongressNC North Dakota: http://www.facebook.com/CongressND Ohio: http://www.facebook.com/CongressOH Oklahoma: http://www.facebook.com/CongressOK Oregon: http://www.facebook.com/CongressOR Pennsylvania: http://www.facebook.com/CongressPA Rhode Island: http://www.facebook.com/CongressRI South Carolina: http://www.facebook.com/CongressSC South Dakota: http://www.facebook.com/CongressSD Tennessee: http://www.facebook.com/CongressTN Texas: http://www.facebook.com/CongressTX Utah: http://www.facebook.com/CongressUT Virginia: http://www.facebook.com/CongressVA Vermont: http://www.facebook.com/CongressVT Washington: http://www.facebook.com/CongressWA Wisconsin: http://www.facebook.com/CongressWI West Virginia: http://www.facebook.com/CongressWV Wyoming: http://www.facebook.com/CongressWY http://apps.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/ |
Kennetha Scott
The Power of One. That is how this all started. An assignment at school to see if one person could make a difference. My Nieces baby Kaliah, had just passed away at 27 days old from Pertussis (August 2011) and I had so many questions. Archives
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