{"id":16021,"date":"2024-11-05T21:07:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T22:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16021"},"modified":"2024-11-05T22:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T22:29:14","slug":"an-idaho-health-department-is-barred-from-offering-covid-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16021","title":{"rendered":"An Idaho Health Department Is Barred from Offering Covid Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Experts worry the unusual move, driven by vaccine misinformation, could fuel further efforts to interfere with immunizations.<\/p>\n

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An Idaho health department is no longer offering Covid-19 shots after its board voted last month to restrict the department from doing so, an unusual step driven largely by misinformation about the side effects and safety of the shots.<\/p>\n

The ban will make it harder for some people to access Covid vaccines in the six-county region in southwestern Idaho, which include Adams, Canyon, Owyhee, Gem, Washington and Payette counties and covers over 300,000 residents. But doctors and public health officials also worry that the move will have a far broader effect, by giving credence to false claims about the vaccines and fueling further efforts across the nation to stop people from getting vaccinated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a real challenge for us, because I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be the last department that\u2019s going to be directed to do that,\u201d said Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. He added that the decision could further undermine trust in public health institutions.<\/p>\n

Vaccine hesitancy and misinformation have hampered the uptake of Covid shots since they were first rolled out, but doctors say that pushback against the vaccines appears to have gained even more momentum very recently. This week, Donald Trump suggested that he may be open to banning some vaccines<\/a> if he wins the election, and said he would discuss the idea with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine critic. And last week, Senator JD Vance, Mr. Trump\u2019s running mate, voiced concerns about Covid vaccine side effects on an episode of \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A handful of state and local health officials have also shared similar sentiments. The state surgeon general of Florida, for example, advised residents against<\/a> getting an updated Covid vaccine this fall.<\/p>\n

The decision in the Idaho district came after a three-and-a-half-hour meeting on Oct. 22 in which members of the public \u2014 both Idaho residents and people who called in from out of state, including several anti-vaccine activists \u2014<\/strong> voiced concerns with the shots. In addition, nearly 300 people submitted written comments in advance of the meeting.<\/p>\n

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Experts worry the unusual move, driven by vaccine misinformation, could fuel further efforts to interfere with immunizations.An Idaho health department is no longer offering Covid-19 shots after its board voted last month to restrict the department from doing so, an unusual step driven largely by misinformation about the side effects and safety of the shots.The ban will make it harder for some people to access Covid vaccines in the six-county region in southwestern Idaho, which include Adams, Canyon, Owyhee, Gem, Washington and Payette counties and covers over 300,000 residents. But doctors and public health officials also worry that the move will have a far broader effect, by giving credence to false claims about the vaccines and fueling further efforts across the nation to stop people from getting vaccinated.\u201cThis is a real challenge for us, because I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be the last department that\u2019s going to be directed to do that,\u201d said Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. He added that the decision could further undermine trust in public health institutions.Vaccine hesitancy and misinformation have hampered the uptake of Covid shots since they were first rolled out, but doctors say that pushback against the vaccines appears to have gained even more momentum very recently. This week, Donald Trump suggested that he may be open to banning some vaccines if he wins the election, and said he would discuss the idea with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine critic. And last week, Senator JD Vance, Mr. Trump\u2019s running mate, voiced concerns about Covid vaccine side effects on an episode of \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience.\u201dA handful of state and local health officials have also shared similar sentiments. The state surgeon general of Florida, for example, advised residents against getting an updated Covid vaccine this fall.The decision in the Idaho district came after a three-and-a-half-hour meeting on Oct. 22 in which members of the public \u2014 both Idaho residents and people who called in from out of state, including several anti-vaccine activists \u2014 voiced concerns with the shots. In addition, nearly 300 people submitted written comments in advance of the meeting.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16023,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16024,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021\/revisions\/16024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}