
Last fall, we alerted you to two identical harmful vaccine bills in the New Jersey Legislature.
These bills allow pharmacy personnel to administer flu and Covid-19 injections to children aged 5 and older without a prescription, as well as all vaccines to individuals aged 18 and older!
Status Update: A1899, as amended in Senate, concurred in Assembly on 12/19/2024; S1981 substituted by A1899 on 12/19/2024; A1899 passed the full Assembly on 6/28/2024.
As a result, we NEED you to contact Governor Murphy and ask him to VETO A1899!
ENROLLED DESCRIPTION: A1899 removes the requirement for pharmacists to be certified to administer a prescription medication directly to a patient; authorizes pharmacists, pharmacy interns, pharmacy externs, and pharmacy technicians to administer vaccines to individuals 18 years of age and older; authorizes pharmacists, pharmacy interns, pharmacy externs, and pharmacy technicians to administer influenza and COVID-19 vaccines to children as young as 5 years old, WITHOUT a prescription; and requires all immunizations administered to individuals by pharmacists, pharmacy interns, pharmacy externs, and pharmacy technicians to be reported to the New Jersey Immunization Information System for inclusion in the registry.
Inadequately trained pharmacy employees should not be allowed to administer potentially life-threatening vaccines to adults or young children. Even pharmacists lack the qualifications to provide vaccinations safely.
Pharmacists and their staff typically do not possess the extensive expertise needed for administering vaccines, comprehending associated risks, conducting thorough prescreening, identifying contraindications, executing emergency interventions for adverse reactions, reporting reactions to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, and providing guidance to parents and patients regarding matters like the statute of limitations and instructions for filing a claim with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Furthermore, Vaccine Information Statements outline numerous reasons why patients may not be suitable candidates for vaccination. It is highly improbable that a pharmacist, technician, or intern would have the time to address all these potential concerns thoroughly.
Please speak up! We need YOUR voice to stop A1899 today!
TAKE ACTION
Contact Governor Phil Murphy at (609) 292-6000 and ask him to VETO A1899.
Calls are more effective than emails and only take a few minutes. Below is a sample script along with additional Talking Points. Use your own words when you call – a personal message is always more effective than a form message!
SAMPLE SCRIPT:
“Hi, my name is ____, and I am a constituent. I am calling to ask Governor Murphy ____ to VETO A1899, which would expand pharmacists’ and their technicians’ and interns’ authority to administer vaccines.
This bill would also allow pharmacists and their staff to give Covid-19 and influenza shots to children as young as five without a prescription.
Pharmacists, technicians, and interns should not be allowed to administer possibly life-threatening vaccines to adults and young children.
Especially when the NJ Board of Pharmacy does not require pharmacy technicians to get formal training and they are only required to have a High School diploma or its equivalent.
I oppose A1899 because people need to be in a doctor’s care for medical procedures. Vaccines may have serious side effects that pharmacists and their associates are not qualified to recognize or treat.
It is reckless to allow pharmacy employees to administer vaccines, especially when they do not have access to a person’s medical history.
As recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court – and evidenced by the $5.1 billion that the federal government has paid to victims – vaccines can injure and kill an individual.
I urge _______ to VETO this bill.”
You may wish to use a couple of the talking points below. Don’t copy all of them – just use them as ideas to help structure your own message.
TALKING POINTS:
- When pharmacists are permitted to administer vaccines, it undermines the doctor-patient relationship and eliminates important health history screenings before vaccination. Pharmacists often lack the necessary medical history of an infant or child, as well as the time to pre-screen for contraindications based on a child’s individual and family history and specific health needs before vaccination.
- Most pharmacies and grocery stores don’t have lifesaving defibrillators as they do in doctors’ offices to save the lives of people who have an immediate life-threatening reaction to vaccines. Will pharmacists have the equipment and training to be able to tell the difference between cardiac arrest, anaphylaxis, and fainting and act accordingly to save the lives of babies and children who react at the time of vaccination?
- Vaccine Information Statements list many reasons why patients should not be vaccinated. It is highly unlikely that a pharmacist has the time to ask about all the reasons not to vaccinate them.
- Allowing pharmacists to prescribe vaccines without access to a person’s medical records means that a person may receive unintended or duplicate vaccines.
- Pharmacy groups will support these bills, but it presents a serious conflict of interest because of the financial benefits they will receive if the bills pass. America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are developing 258 vaccines. The U.S. Vaccine Market alone was $36.45 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach $149 billion by 2026. Pharmacies stand to increase their profits substantially by allowing pharmacy technicians to put those shots into customers.
- Neither pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, nor interns will have liability for the injuries and deaths caused by the vaccines they administer to children. Vaccine administrators are shielded from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths through the combination of the law passed by Congress in 1986 establishing the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the 2011 Supreme Court Decision BRUESEWITZ ET AL. v. WYETH LLC, FKA WYETH, INC., ET AL.
- Vaccine package inserts warn of the risk of brain damage, life-threatening allergies, and death. No one knows in advance whom a vaccine will harm, And pharmacists are not equipped to recognize or handle severe adverse reactions.
- Vaccines are medical procedures that carry a risk of serious injury. Hundreds of thousands have reported an adverse reaction to vaccination to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The U.S. Government has paid out $5.1 billion to the victims of vaccine injury, per VICP Data Reports. https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/data
- Covid shot manufacturers and providers are shielded from liability through the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or PREP Act. The only option for compensating people injured by COVID-19 vaccines is the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). Only eight percent of all petitioners since 2010 have been awarded compensation through the CICP. No legal or medical expert fees are covered, no pain and suffering is awarded, lost wages are capped at $50,000 per year, and there is no judicial appeal. In other words, the victims will be severely under-compensated while the pharmaceutical companies get rich.
Prep Act – https://aspr.hhs.gov/legal/PREPact/Pages/default.aspx
Coverage by CCIP (see p. 7, Oct 2021) – https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10584
“Vaccine injury compensation programs overwhelmed as congressional reform languishes” (6/1/2022) – https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/vaccine-injury-compensation-programs-overwhelmed-as-congressional-reform-languishes-00033064
- There have already been 1,568,332 Covid-19 shot adverse events and 37,735 Covid-19 vaccine deaths reported in the U.S. to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (per data released 12/27/24).
Run your own search – https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.php
Cases (adverse events) – https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php
Deaths – https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&EVENTS=ON&VAX%5B%5D=COVID19&DIED=Yes
MORE INFORMATION
Read text A1899 here:
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2024/A1899
LINKS embedded in this alert:
Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System –
Instructions for filing a claim –
https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/how-to-file
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program –
https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation
Vaccine Information Statements –
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/index.html
$5 billion as of 9/29/2023 –
https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vicp/vicp-stats-09-01-23.pdf
Read this article on the lack of safety for all vaccines: https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/vaccines-unsafe-since-the-very-beginning/#gsc.tab=0
Read these articles for more information on the dangers of Covid shots:
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