A lot of parents across the county and the state are happy that their kids are getting ready to head back to school and, on Tuesday, August 2, state health officials sent out a reminder that parents need to get their kids up to date on vaccinations. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) is reminding families “that vaccinations are an important part of back-to-school success and overall health and well-being.”
Several years ago, this was a lot less controversial topic. In recent years, the debate over vaccines has grown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And, while some people may not be in favor of getting kids vaccinated, NCDHHS stresses the importance. Vaccine-preventable diseases like chicken pox, meningitis, measles and whooping cough are still seen in North Carolina.
Children who are uninsured can be vaccinated at little to no cost through the Vaccines for Children program, which, as the name implies, offers free vaccines to children through 19 years of age.
“Following CDC recommendations to control the spread of all vaccine-preventable diseases is an essential piece of both child and family well-being,” said State Epidemiologist Dr. Zack Moore. “NCDHHS is helping health care providers, parents and guardians take this essential step to protect children's health in school and at home.”
Dr. Dimitrios “Takie” Hondros, the president of the NC Academy of Family Physicians, also said proper vaccination of school kids is very important for public health.
“As children move into their preteen and teen years, they become more susceptible to certain diseases, making it especially important to stay current with immunizations,” Hondros said. “At the same time, preteens and teens tend to have fewer visits to their doctor’s office, increasing the chance that they are not up to date,”. “This decrease in immunizations accelerated among adolescents during the pandemic, when stay-at-home orders went into effect.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognizes August as National Immunization Awareness Month.
Getting school kids vaccinated is also the law: Whether kids are homeschooled or attend a public, private, charter or religious school, state laws require they stay up to date for certain vaccinations based on their age, as recommended by the CDC.
NCDHHS officials stated that the department is encouraging all parents to talk with their child’s healthcare provider about recommended vaccinations. During that same visit, those officials suggest, parents should talk with their doctor about the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine for their children.
Many pediatricians and family practitioners will provide the COVID-19 vaccine for all eligible family members, as well as teens, during that same visit. People can visit MySpot.nc.gov for more information about COVID-19 vaccines.
Get exemptions keep that poison out of your kids bodies. It’s an immune system they used to teach anout it in schools. Eat right, sleep good, and stay active
Thanks Richard!
No forced Vaccinations.
Or go back and look at the history of polio, measles, etc… and the millions of lives ruined by these diseases before vaccines. Or listen to an anti-science nutter and put your children and other at risk because you lack the trust in people who dedicate their lives for the health and well being of your children.
Nope. To coin a phrase the liberals love to use, my body, my choice. You don’t just blindly follow whatever these government agencies recommend. If we’ve seen anything from them recently, it’s that they are way to quick to push things that are ineffective.
No one is forcing you to vaccinate your children. If you don’t like the public school rules, then homeschool.
What public schools are you referring to do you mean the taxpayer paid for public indoctrination institutions that are trying to teach children that a person born a man or woman can be whatever they decide to be not what they were born as at birth. We are the laughing stock of the world. No wonder China has no fear of the U.S.
If you think public schools are so awful, why on Earth would you send your children there? That sounds like poor parenting to me
I didn’t nor would I. My two were homeschooled. 1 is an attorney the other got her masters and is now a regional manager for a national restaurant chain. Both are Christian conservatives and active Republicans. Home school only No public schools.
Well done, Rebel ! My two were homeschooled, and while it meant financial hardship as my wife gave up her job, it also resulted in them both getting “free ride” college scholarships (to UNC-Chapel Hill and MIT). And they are both now right thinking, hard working and successful.
Government schools are a cess pit.
Read the article… Even homeschooled children are required to be vaccinated.
Been doing that for years. I wouldn’t send my dog to a government ran school.
Most parents are not that concerned about the vaccines that are required to attend school, before Covid-19 pandemic. The medical scientists have studied the risk associated with children infected with Covid-19 under 18 YOA on the CDC web page provides the facts/evidence of the percentage of children who have been infected by Covid-19 and survived against the percentages of children who was infected by Covid-19 and did not survive.
The chance of children being infected by Covid-19 is less than 2%. The percentage of death for children is 0.01%. Is So low children are more likely to die from drowning , car accidents, or flu and pneumonia. The percentage of children infected that are hospitalized is less than 2%. Given the vaccine is experimental drug I will not allow my child to be vaccinated for Covid-19. Further the drug companies had all their records sealed for 75 years . That is very suspicious!
Not suspicious….basic common sense protection versus all the nutters that would attack with baseless lawsuits, doc request, etc… Just because they lack basic trust in any system they are too ignorant to understand.
Not complicated.
Given your “low” percentages, do you suppose any parents of children who died from drowning, auto accidents, etc wish there had been a vaccine available
against those “unlikely”occurrences? If your child (you do have at least one you’re protecting against vaccines, or is it only Other People’s Children
you are anxiously protecting. with their own lives?) should fall into that cited .01%
who die from Covid, would you be at all remorseful, or guilty-feeling?
Our govt is in control of everything. Just do as they say, and you will be happy and safe.
I’ll settle for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Vaccines have been around for decades and have eliminated the evils and pains of polio, measles, whooping cough, etc… and are clearly safe after decades of study. But because you are an ignorant anti-science nutter you promote actions to allow these diseases to potentially return. Your penitence should be to have to care for child that end us suffering from the return of these diseases and witness their suffering first hand.
Since your ignorance and promotion of misinformation leads to potential pain and suffering of others, this is not just an issue of personal choice. You are actively promoting the decline of public health and deserve to be shamed and ridiculed. In the face of the amazingly positive history of diseases eradicated by vaccines you choose to promote distrust and ignorance that would have all that suffering return. Sad that science has come so far just for distrust to ruin the amazing progress that vaccine brought to our society. Shame on you and all the other anti-vax nutters.
Chris (who falsifies evidence) is showing us his totalitarian inclinations. He would have been “a good German” in 1930’s Germany.
I am simply support current US law. Austin again showing his ignorance and over dramatic reactions to things he doesn’t understand. To show show how driven by your own hatred, you actually support general vaccines per your own comments. But when I fight the misinformation used to encourage people to work against basic public health policy, you get all defensive.
What a sad person.
One of us is certainly consumed with hatred.
I think the headline is missing something
If i could get all the money crackheads get from taxpayers, i could stay home and homeschool. But I’m the wrong color.
Go ahead an try it…you will find they receive minimal money and crowded public services that often are substantially substandard to private care services.
Let us know how it goes Will.
We homeschooled our two sons, and I can recommend it. But, despite half of Guilford County’s budget going to Guilford County Schools – which we never used – I never received a dime in discount on my Property Tax.
The Government Schools are not only sewers of incompetence, indifference and indoctrination, they’re also an inescapable extortion racket.
There is a big difference between our classic trusted vaccines (which fit the CDC definition of a vaccine prior to the fake “vaccines” of the Covid shots) and the current chemical concoctions that are purported to combat the Coronavirus.
The former are fine. They are proven to be safe and effective. The Covid “vaccines” are not safe, not effective, and not even vaccines. If you have young children please research the whole story about these Frankenstein injections.
I think it might give you pause.
For your child’s sake.
Good point and comports with current data. The “Covid” mRNA therapeutic has proven ineffective and since the VAERS reports over 29,000 people have died from taking the “jab” it would be prudent to demur that one, but the actual vaccines that have been tested properly and administered with minimal adverse effects would be proper.
(Go back TO journalism class to learn editing skills for headlines.)
Say, “NO”, to vaccines and educate your own kids. Say, “NO”, to masks, Bonds, taxes, and the rest that has to do with government intrusion, also. Government-educated voters are destroying our County, city, state, and country.
The “Public Schools” are an extension of the political Left.
In 19th Century Britain the great fear of the Victorians was that a government run education system would inevitably lead to statist/socialist indoctrination of the children. They were right.
Love how the right wing strategy is to avoid education. ‘Keep em dumb’ must be the only viable strategy to get people to vote for modern Republicans.
I’ll put my boys against your kids any day in any intelligence or education test.
Yours wouldn’t have a chance.
Lol, did you just say that ‘Educated’ voters are destroying us? Says a lot about yourself. Maybe a little extra education would help you get past your fear of those that have dedicated their lives to improving public health while you sit on your couch eating processed foods and sodas yelling at your tv. LOL
No, Deborah said that “Government-educated voters” are destroying our country, not educated voters. It’s a distinction that has escaped your limited intellect.
Educated voters generally have been home schooled or privately educated.
Government-educated voters ( like you? ) are breathtakingly ignorant and poorly educated. They don’t receive an education, they receive an indoctrination – which is exactly what the Left wants.
Just because someone is educated doesn’t mean they have common sense. That sounds familiar to your home doesn’t it Chris
Funny the correlation to education and financial success in general. But you be you.
The Clot shot is not a vaccine!! They changed the definition of it conveniently for a shot that does not prevent you from getting Covid nor does it prevent you from going to ths hospital with it. As a medical professional the number of adverse vascular effects I have seen from it, just makes me sick! Do not give your child the clot shot…also seeing a number of people that have developed autoimmune disorders. Do your research!!
Thanks for coming forward Abby. I have customers in the medical field who refuse to be jabbed, because they have seen what it does. It’s a poison prick, and we are only just beginning to see its effects. They can’t keep it hushed up forever.
And if anyone reading this has been jabbed, please think very carefully before submitting to “boosters’. The malicious effects are cumulative, with many people becoming seriously ill only after a 4th shot.
Oh great. Another couch potato researcher who seeks that that only feeds her bias. Covid is now a new strain of flu to worry about each year. Get the shot along with your annual flu shot. Will greatly reduce symtoms of a virus that is highly contagious.
Notice how Abby doesn’t mention any of the research that is showing concern for the long-term impacts of covid. She also doesn’t mention the new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research that contradicts everything she says….come to think of it, she doesn’t mention ANY legitimate study or source…hmmmmm. Might Abby be a nutter?
You can lead Leftists like Chris (who falsifies evidence) to the truth, but they will reject it out of hand, and spit their insults and venom at you for it. So Abby works in the medical profession, has had the courage to speak the truth about these toxic injections, but to Chrissy she is excoriated as a “couch potato researcher” and “a nutter”.
One of these persons is overcoming her trepidation to do the right thing (the very definition of courage), and the other is behaving in a churlish, cheap, spiteful and hateful way.
We all can see which is which.