Posted on 10/01/2022 9:20:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York’s top health official is urging the public to get vaccinated against poliovirus if they haven’t yet done so.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett declared polio "an imminent threat to public health" in New York State Wednesday, Sept. 28.
The declaration will free up resources to help local health departments set up vaccination clinics and better focus their outreach efforts to unvaccinated or under-vaccinated New Yorkers, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office said.
Health officials are hoping to boost immunization rates particularly in areas that have been most affected by the virus and among children.
“Thanks to long-established school immunization requirements, the vast majority of adults, and most children, are fully vaccinated against polio,” Bassett said.
“Our focus remains on ensuring the on-time administration of polio vaccination among young children and catching kids and adults up who are unimmunized and under-immunized in the affected areas.”
With the declaration, local health departments will be able to claim financial reimbursements for costs incurred from community outreach and education.
State and local health officials also continue to monitor wastewater samples across New York, which can indicate whether polio is spreading, officials said.
The disease has been found in wastewater samples taken from several areas, including Rockland, Orange, and Sullivan counties, as well as Nassau County and New York City.
It was first confirmed in Rockland County wastewater in July 2022, days after health officials confirmed that the county had the first confirmed case of polio seen in the United States in nearly a decade.
When the disease was found in more wastewater samples, Gov. Hochul declared a state disaster emergency on Friday, Sept. 9, which expanded the network of polio vaccine administrators to include EMS workers, midwives, and pharmacies.
It also authorized doctors and certified nurse practitioners to issue standing orders for polio vaccines and required healthcare providers to send immunization data to the state health department to better target vaccination efforts, Hochul’s office said.
Polio is a highly contagious, viral disease that can lead to permanent paralysis of the arms and legs and can be fatal due to paralysis in the muscles used to breathe or swallow.
Symptoms of polio include fatigue, fever, headache, stiffness, muscle pain, and vomiting, and can take up to 30 days to appear, during which time an infected person can be transmitting the virus to others.
The most important way for children and adults to protect themselves is to get vaccinated if they have not received all recommended polio vaccine doses, health officials said.
More information about polio and vaccines can be found on the Department of Health’s website.
Brought back to the United States because of Illegal Aliens?
All these diseases that seemed to have been eradicated are coming back.
Polio had been eradicated everywhere in the world except Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan. When Biden gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban and refugees started streaming out it was a pretty safe bet that they would bring polio with them.
We didn’t have a working vaccine until the mid 1950s. I was born after the polio epidemics of the 1950s, but I knew kids who were a few years older than me that were not so lucky.
The biggest health threat in the state is the demonrats in power.
Exactly!!
Yup.
Quick
Suspend all election laws
Declare all humanity as part of rhe American electorate
Elevate Kathy Hochul to Planetary Emperor
They will go after the Orthodox Jews over this.
Osama Obama used fake vaccine doctors to supposedly check out Osama’s compound. GREAT way to not convince nutbars to get vaccinated.
No thanks
I had yearly shots at school ages 5, 6, 7 and then 2 more years of a yummy red drink ...
If that’s not enough immunization, Dr Salk was wrong ...
I was born in 1950 and got the real vaccine. I remember a grade school friend that had polio. Had to wear leg braces.
Translation: lockdowns are coming.
Yay Team Bidon!
Hochul is going to leverage this to push not only polio vaccinates, but SARS-CoV-2 mRNA "vaxx" on school children. The combo will be a disaster. The mRNA vaxx damages the immune system and the LAV vaccine for polio will find an immune compromised victim due to the mRNA vaxx.
Maybe we should end in person voting, lock down everything and accept totalitarian rule by Dem governors and mayors, along with more shots.
Or let’s not.
Lock it down!
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