If repealing religious exemptions wasn't enough, New York State Senator Brad Hoylman (D-Westside of Manhattan) and Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-Riverdale, Bronx)  also have bills (Senate Bill S2276 and Assembly Bill A2316) to make flu shots mandatory to attend school in New York. The lack of efficacy and the many safety issues with flu shots are well known, which is probably why the vast majority of Americans refuse to get them despite enormous advertising campaigns. There is certainly no compelling evidence that this assault on parents' rights is necessary for public health reasons. 

     This bill has nothing to do with public health and everything to do with providing revenue and power to the drug industry. The big four companies of the vaccine cartel, Glaxo, Sanofi, CSL and Astra Zeneca make all the flu shots sold in the US, with approximately 4,000,000 children in New York between 6 months and 18 years, and the federal Vaccines for Children program selling flu vaccines at around $13.50 per dose, the New York flu shot market for children is worth about $54 million per year, not including the administration fees charge by pediatricians and other flu shot retailers.

     Similar to a growing number of bills coming out of Albany, the language official language describing the bill is inaccurate and misleading. The official description of the bill states, "Relates to mandatory influenza vaccine for persons attending daycare." The memo written by the bill authors only mentions preschool settings, but throughout the text of the bill influenza is included among the diseases that must be vaccinated against for K-12 students. So not only do Hoylman and Dinowitz want to further take away your ability to make medical decisions for your children and give that authority to drug companies, but they are lying about it in the very text of the bill.

     According to multi-decade studies of flu shot efficacy by the Cochrane Collaboration, inactivated flu shots in children age 3-16 reduce the risk of influenza in children from 30% to 11% on average. In some years, like 2017, flu shots have no measurable efficacy at all, even in the best case scenarios devised by the flu shot manufacturers. There is insufficient data according tothe Cochrane Collaboration to even say what affect flu shots have on children under 2, yet they would be required to get the shots.

     Flu shots are not recommended for children in the vast majority of developed democracies. And only two states, New Jersey and Connecticut, require flu shots for pre-schoolers. New Jersey allows an automatic exemption upon presenting a letter, and Connecticut offers an automatic exemption by filling out a form. New York allows no personal choice or belief exemptions. New York City’s Board of Health imposed a regulation requiring flu shots for attendance at daycare and pre-school programs regulated by New York City, but they have published no data showing any improvement in child health as a result.

     Some flu shots in the US (approximately 20%) are still made using thimerosal, an obsolete preservative based on toxic mercury, that is banned in most of the world, but not the US. New York banned the use of thimerosal in 2008 in shots given to pregnant women and children under three, but the Cuomo administration has illegally suspended the law for past several years misusing language in the bill that allows the state to suspend the law if there is a declared shortage of mercury-free flu shots. There has never been a declared shortage, but Health Commissioner Zucker suspends the law anyway.

     An internal CDC study showed 700% more autism among children who received thimerosal-containing vaccines in infancy.  And studies have shown 20% higher autism among children whose mothers received pre-natal flu shots in the first trimester.

      Assembly Bill A2316 is co-sponsored by Anthony D'Urso (D-Great Neck), Al Taylor (D-Washington Heights), Diana Richardson (D-Crown Heights), John McDonald (D-Albany), Ellen Jaffee (D-Rockland County) and Dan Quart (D-Midtown East).

     Senate Bill S2276 is co-sponsored by Liz Krueger (D-Upper Eastside) and Alessandra Biaggi (D-Bronx).

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