Tom Price's Views Could Feed The Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Brewing In Texas

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said that vaccination should be a state-regulated choice, not a federal requirement, during a CNN televised town hall event on March 15.  State governments should be responsible for public health, according to Price, and for determining “whether or not immunizations are required for a community population.” Price’s emphasize on individual choice for immunization is especially troubling considering he is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons ― which, despite its official-sounding name, promotes the thoroughly debunked claim that that vaccines cause autism and considers mandatory vaccination to be “equivalent to human experimentation.” (During Price’s January confirmation hearing, he conceded that vaccines do not cause autism when he was directly asked.)  HHS Secretary Tom Price says it should be up to states to regulate whether immunizations are required https://t.co/3QWUK3oy0W— CNN (@CNN) March 16, 2017 “Dr. Price is correct that much of vaccine policy is set at the state level,” Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told The Huffington Post. “But DHHS has an equally important role ‎in vaccine advocacy,” Hotez said, adding that President Donald Trump’s administration has been mostly silent on the issue. “In fairnes...
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