Public school nurses give swine flu vaccine to kids without parents' OK, sends child to hospital

New York Daily News.com ^ | 10-30-09 | Ben Chapman and Rachel Monahan

[444Flyer]

"I was outraged," Naomi Troy, 26, told the Daily News after her 6-year-old daughter, Nikiyah Torres-Pierre, had a possible allergic reaction to the shot.

[444Flyer]

Ping

[Mr. Jazzy]

Bet the trial lawyers are lining up at their door for this one.

[GOPJ]

Liberals are acting like “true believers” when it comes to this shot... odd.

[Vendome]

SOB! I hope this child is okay and I will pray for recovery.

This mother should initiate a suit and hold the district, the city, the county, state and the nurse insolido.

After that some one should be...

[GovernmentShrinker]

Naomi sniffs an opportunity to make big bucks from a lawsuit. This is a crock. The mother had put in an inquiry to the girl’s doctor as to whether she should have it. The answer hadn’t come back yet, but would surely have been yes — epilepsy is not a contraindiction to the shot, and kids attending huge urban public schools, and riding public transit to and from school are at high risk for catching this flu — and the girl would have gotten the shot anyway. The photo looks very posed, and there’s no indication in the article that the girl suffered any ill effects — she was promptly released from the hospital, where she was apparently only taken as a precaution, and mom isn’t mentioning any medication or follow-up care that’s been prescribed.

[C210N]

Well here is one way to expand the vaccine testing population.

[mlizzy]

Her outrage is understandable. Here's a new site from Dr. Mercola (holistic physician) on everything swine: Link

[Eva]

A young friend of ours had her family inoculated on Friday, at a local clinic. The eighteen month old baby now has a bad case of the flu with a croupy cough that kept both the baby and mother up all night. This time last year, the baby was hospitalized with a croupy cough that was associated with the flu.

[brytlea]

I have really never thought schools should be giving any kind of medicine or shots or anything else. I know when I taught HS there were kids who went to the school RECEPTIONIST to get their meds. That just seemed plain old dumb. I would much prefer the onus to be on the parent if something goes wrong.

[Vendome]

kids are at high risk for catching any number of the 15 strains of flu that show up each year.

Anyway, if the mortality rate for this flu is less than others (less than 1 percent of hospitalized case) why take goo in your arm, of something that has no proven efficacy or predictable side effects?

The cure could be worse

[GovernmentShrinker]

Look, we’re talking about a public school in Crown Heights here. Half the kids don’t even get FED at home.

[DvdMom]

you might want to ping the list to this new article , thanks :)

[latina4dubya]

Naomi sniffs an opportunity to make big bucks from a lawsuit. This is a crock.

that doesn't matter... she did not give permission... the girl should not have received the shot... SUE, SUE, SUE!!!!!

[444Flyer]

“...Officials at Public School 335 in Crown Heights called an ambulance to take Nikiyah to SUNY Downstate Medical Center when she fell ill following the arm jab.”

So the ones who could be sued called an ambulance for no apparent reason?

There is a bigger point here. A Government worker/Public school employee gave a child with a pre-existing health condition a vaccine with unknown side effects against the wishes of her parent. That alone leaves the guilty open to litigation. And how can you question the motives of the parent based on the picture taken of she and her child?

[swain_forkbeard]

If someone injected my six year old without my permission, I would be very irritated.

[DvdMom]

ping...

[jerri]

I got the swine flu vaccination last Wednesday and have been sick ever since. Fatigue, congestion and painfully sore throat.

First time I ever got the flu shot and probably the last.

[Godwin1]

Don’t they know? The only thing they don’t have to tell parents about is abortion. Oh, the kid is allergic to anesthesia? Sorry ‘bout that.

[mlizzy]

A young friend of ours had her family inoculated on Friday, at a local clinic. The eighteen month old baby now has a bad case of the flu with a croupy cough that kept both the baby and mother up all night. This time last year, the baby was hospitalized with a croupy cough that was associated with the flu.

What to do? What did the doctor say regarding the 18-month-old being sick now? If I had little ones, I'd be in a quandary over all of this. Mine are older and it's ultimately up to them whether they take the shot or not (provided they can even find one!) Our neighboring high school had over 900 kids out sick (flu, swine flu, and bronchitis), yet, they have no immunizations available to take for those who want them in the area.