I'm a Board Certified anesthesiologist and have been in practice for 24 years. I just learned that the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where I trained has launched a program to increase flu vaccine uptake among children by vaccinating them while under anesthesia.
The program is called "Close your Eyes. We'll Immunize"
This is stunningly irresponsible. Here's why:
Anesthetists are extremely risk avoidant and endeavor to minimize patient exposure to anything which carries potential side effects. This is particularly true of pediatric patients who very often have never been exposed to anesthetic medications. We simply cannot know how an individual child will respond to these drugs for the first time.
Every single medication we administer during an operation can potentially trigger untoward or allergic responses. When this occurs our primary responsibility is to stabilize the patient. Our secondary responsibility is to identify the offending agent. There is absolutely no justification of introducing another agent, in this case a flu vaccine, which carries a risk of harm and contributes nothing to the success of the operation.
Some of the more common side effects of flu vaccines are fever (11-16%) and less commonly, a rash (1%). There is also an non-zero risk of severe allergic reactions and high-grade fevers which can develop over the course of minutes.
What if a child under anesthesia receives a vaccine and develops a rash and/or fever? Is it from the antibiotic that the surgeon requested? Is it from the narcotic? The anxiolytic? The barbiturate?
Anesthetic gases can also (rarely) trigger a life threatening response called Malignant Hyperthermia which commonly presents as a high fever. Without subsequent testing we cannot know which agent was responsible. Most commonly the testing is never done and the child’s record will forever reflect the possibility that some or all of the drugs which were used are responsible for their reaction. This makes future anesthetic care significantly more challenging and will require the use of alternatives which may not be necessary.
Advocating for a flu vaccine while a child is anesthetized reflects the pervasive yet inaccurate attitude among the medical establishment that vaccines are perfectly safe. I simply cannot believe that my mentors would have ever supported this initiative when I was a resident there. Close your eyes indeed.
This is beyond harmful and completely misguided.
Absolutely should not give a vaccine while having surgery.
Vaccines affect the immune system.
They have risks.
Also flu vaccines have more risk than benefit. That has been known for decades.
Discussed in my paper.
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It will be interesting to see the fine print of the 1% commission for https://t.co/tha9Gi58zV and how this actually gets paid out.
The only other inventive for exposing fraud that exists is something called, “Qui Tam,” or the False Claims Act. It’s remarkable how few people know about it
In a Qui Tam, you sue on behalf of the government (you’re called the “relator”) if you are the original source or whistleblower. If the case prevails, you get 15-25% of the recovery if the government intervenes, or 25-30% if the relator pursues the case alone.
That is much higher than the 1% in the announced program….
@YATPOfficial really should be paid for all the fraud they uncover to help pay for the legal bills of the victims of the fraud... Would be great if this was just all avoided in the first place.
NEW: President Trump launches an anti-fraud program that will give Americans a 1% commission on the money they find in fraud.
A $1 billion fraud discovery, for example, would net someone $10,000,000.
"If you turn somebody in and you, let's say, report and you find a billion dollars, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%," Trump said.
"It's a lot of money. And if it's 10 billion, 200 billion, 400 billion, we are giving a 1% commission to that person."
Nick Shirley will become the first person to benefit from the program. He will be given a $10,000 check.
"Nick Shirley has been at the forefront of the battle to stop the horrible plague that has happened within our country," Trump said.
@nicksortor@nickshirleyy You are the Power is a great organization helping families being torn apart by this type of fraud of our government agencies where there is little to no accountability. https://t.co/648psFr7jl
@nicksortor@nickshirleyy This is awesome but Only $10K? They gave Georgia DFCS $1 million for a spy vehicle. 😳 Maybe Nick's next investigation and also look into child abuse pediatricians/hospitals/CPS who seem to get no accountability or oversight when they rule "abuse".
DFCS did not appear to get state funds so who has money to burn? Apparently welfare is easy to get money to donate to spy on innocent citizens! https://t.co/9C9QjmXQu6
@nickshirleyy We are trying! Here in Georgia, head of DFCS is buying $1 million dollar spy vehicle with welfare funds. This is just a tiny part of what she is doing destroying good families along the way. https://t.co/9C9QjmXQu6
🚨 JUST IN: Nick Shirley just dropped this line in the Oval Office flanked by President Trump, and it's PURE GOLD
"I want people to think about what is happening right now...me as a 24-year-old, I went out and exposed the fraud. I just was concerned about the well-being of our tax dollars. And right now, I'm standing next to the President of the United States." 🔥
"There's never been an incentive for anyone to ever expose fraud [until now]...when you expose fraud, you help save America. People understand that these fraudsters take from the poor needy who actually need the services that we all work hard to pay for, and we take that, and they then buy Mercedes!" @nickshirleyy
WELL-DESERVED FOR NICK.
A year ago, legacy media mocked him as a right-wing propagandist
Today he walked into the Oval Office with the first check for exposing fraud that the media IGNORED!!
Camera, microphone and passion for saving America. Let's freaking go.
CASE UPDATE: The Freeman family was dealt another heartbreaking setback yesterday.
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BREAKING NEWS: Abdul El-Sayed Campaign Official Reveals El-Sayed Receives Overseas Donations, Admits Foreign Contributions Are Illegal Under Federal Law, Warns Denouncing Hamas Could Cost Support
“You know, he [Abdul El-Sayed] has people from overseas that donate to him...No it is not allowed."
“He [Abdul El Sayed] can't just say, you know, no, I don't support Hamas, you know, I reject all of them, because he's going to lose the people that brought him up in the first place.”
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@johnrich@AndyStanley We most importantly still have the Bible but Charles’ sermons are still being played. I go to an amazing verse by verse church in Georgia but there is also verse by verse ministries and the Blue letter Bible app. Once one learns to dig deep, the Word has so much guidance.
@AndyStanley I love my church (Calvary - Verse by verse encouraging direct relationship with God through the Word). The question we are taught to ask as we have our quiet time reading the Bible(God's Word/Sword of the Spirit 🙌) is ❤️ "Who is God?" ❤️🙏 Ephesians 6
@AndyStanley Reading the Bible(the Old Testament, too!) with "Who is God" changed a lot - no longer surface stuff. Convicting to learn Truth but also learning Joy in All circumstances. 🙌 (Joy in the Lord not circumstances) Philippians 3:20–21 John 14:6 John 3:16...
Philippians 4:4-7