Posted on 09/09/2022 8:17:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster emergency Friday, Sept. 9, after polio was found in more wastewater samples.
The executive order will immediately expand the network of polio vaccine administrators with the addition of EMS workers, midwives, and pharmacies.
It also authorizes doctors and certified nurse practitioners to issue standing orders for polio vaccines, the governor's office said.
Under the order, healthcare providers are also required to send polio immunization data to the New York State Department of Health, which will help local health agencies better focus their vaccination efforts where they are needed most, officials said.
"On polio, we simply cannot roll the dice," State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said. "If you or your child are unvaccinated or not up to date with vaccinations, the risk of paralytic disease is real.
"I urge New Yorkers to not accept any risk at all. Polio immunization is safe and effective – protecting nearly all people against disease who receive the recommended doses. Do not wait to vaccinate.”
Bassett urged those unsure of their vaccination status to contact their healthcare provider or county health department.
Friday’s announcement comes amid a growing number of confirmed polio findings in wastewater samples across New York, an indication that the disease is spreading, health officials said.
On Friday, polio was confirmed in wastewater samples that were collected on Long Island, in Nassau County
In July 2022, the state health department confirmed a case of paralytic polio among a Rockland County resident, the first time it had been seen in the United States in nearly a decade.
The disease has also been found in wastewater samples collected in Orange and Sullivan counties, along with New York City, officials said.
Polio 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.
The most important way for children and adults to protect themselves is to get vaccinated right away if they have not received all recommended polio vaccine doses, health officials said.
Most adults do not need the polio vaccine because they were already vaccinated as children, they added.
“Diversity is out strength”
She left that part out.
Texas and Florida Shipping the illegals to new york has some benefits.
“Caravans”,”refreegeez” and illegal immigration do have its consequences. CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA! We’ve come a long way backwards! Good job!
There is an ethnicity concentrated in Rockland County and Brooklyn which is very anti-EVERY vaxx.
One dare not mention its name for fear of being labelled “anti-Semetic”....but a NY statewide measles vaccination mandate with NO religious exemption came about because of this community.
I am vehemently anti Coup-flu “vaxx” mandate...but polio is a horse of a different color.
Never ending emergencies. 🙄
Polio is MUCH worse than COVID, and the vaxes were long proven safe and effective. (Despite popular belief, it was not the Salk that proved good.)
HOWEVER, I’d still question the need for this. If there are almost no cases, and maybe just “it’s in the waste”, why bother?
Vax your youngin’s against Polio.
How do you think it winds up in the sewer? It didn’t blow in on the breeze.
Primary transmission route for polio is fecal-oral, so if you want to know its spreding, you can look in the sewer. No one thinks the sewer is speeding it, it’s just a way to tell its in the community.
Another reason not to poop in the pool.
(Polio always peaked during the summer public swimming pool season)
Heck they are blaming antivaxxers. Funny how two different groups blame the other. Probably both wrong.
On another FREEPER thread, they say it’s coming from Israel. Stop travel to and from Israel today.
“Polio is MUCH worse than COVID”
90% of polio infections present either mild symptoms or no symptoms at all.
Only 2% of polio cases result in paralysis or death.
“The polio virus enters the body through the mouth, usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur.”
https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/polio/
cuz its spread by feces...and have you seen how many people take a dump and walk out without washing their hands??
But seriesly, his is fricken liberals making their own crises by stupid immigration policies and maybe even planting the virus themselves.
Hegalian Dialectic in action. Everything they do makes things worse, deserving of MORE of their stupid and malevolent solutions.
Agreed. It is the only vax I would stand in line for. Because I have resisted the covid vax, I have had a 45 percent pay cut.
Tetanus shots [10 yr interval] seem to be a good risk to take on.
As has always been stated here “Import the Third World, become the Third World’’.
Polio returns in our life time.
After having been eradicated now it’s returned because we imported human refuse infected with polio and God knows what else.
What? Schmucky Schumer went swimming again?
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