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11-18-2009, 12:18 AM
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2596
YouTube - H.R. 2596 EVERY CHILD TO BE VACCINATED (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qGcX8V3Rw&feature=player_embedded)
Washington, DC -Representative Gene Green (D-TX) joined by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) introduced H.R. 2596, the No Child Left Unimmunized Against Influenza Act of 2009. This bipartisan bill authorizes a multistate demonstration program which will test to see if elementary schools and secondary schools across the nation could serve as seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccination centers.
The Center for Disease Control recently recommended that all children aged 6 months to 18 years be given annual influenza vaccination. It will be hard for pediatricians and nurses to keep up with the increased demand – expected to be an additional 30 million children.
“Having health professionals vaccinate school-aged children during school hours is the best way to successfully vaccinate kids,” stated Rep. Green. “Working parents will not have to leave work to take their kids to a physician’s office, and schools will see fewer absences from reduced infections rates.”
This legislation hopes that by developing a mass immunization infrastructure in our school systems, it will successfully deliver vaccines to school-age children, for whom pandemic attack rates are expected to be highest.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the best way to prevent the flu is by getting a flu vaccination each year. Influenza is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable death amongst children in the United States. On average, five to twenty percent of the population gets the flu each year in the United States; more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications, and about 36,000 Americans die from flu-related causes.
Seasonal flu costs the U.S. economy nearly $90 billion annually, including $10 billion in medical costs.
The No Child Left Unimmunized Against Influenza Act of 2009 will authorize a multistate demonstration program designed to test the feasibility of using the Nation’s elementary schools and secondary schools as influenza vaccination centers in coordination with school nurses, school health care programs, local health departments, and community health care providers.
http://www.house.gov/list/press/tx29_green/06042009Flu.html
YouTube - H.R. 2596 EVERY CHILD TO BE VACCINATED (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qGcX8V3Rw&feature=player_embedded)
Washington, DC -Representative Gene Green (D-TX) joined by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) introduced H.R. 2596, the No Child Left Unimmunized Against Influenza Act of 2009. This bipartisan bill authorizes a multistate demonstration program which will test to see if elementary schools and secondary schools across the nation could serve as seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccination centers.
The Center for Disease Control recently recommended that all children aged 6 months to 18 years be given annual influenza vaccination. It will be hard for pediatricians and nurses to keep up with the increased demand – expected to be an additional 30 million children.
“Having health professionals vaccinate school-aged children during school hours is the best way to successfully vaccinate kids,” stated Rep. Green. “Working parents will not have to leave work to take their kids to a physician’s office, and schools will see fewer absences from reduced infections rates.”
This legislation hopes that by developing a mass immunization infrastructure in our school systems, it will successfully deliver vaccines to school-age children, for whom pandemic attack rates are expected to be highest.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the best way to prevent the flu is by getting a flu vaccination each year. Influenza is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable death amongst children in the United States. On average, five to twenty percent of the population gets the flu each year in the United States; more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications, and about 36,000 Americans die from flu-related causes.
Seasonal flu costs the U.S. economy nearly $90 billion annually, including $10 billion in medical costs.
The No Child Left Unimmunized Against Influenza Act of 2009 will authorize a multistate demonstration program designed to test the feasibility of using the Nation’s elementary schools and secondary schools as influenza vaccination centers in coordination with school nurses, school health care programs, local health departments, and community health care providers.
http://www.house.gov/list/press/tx29_green/06042009Flu.html