Anti-vaccine parents thank hospital who saved their child by flipping the staff off.https://www.good.is/anti-vaxxers-flip-off-er …
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I’m going to hope that there’s more to the story, because what I’m reading makes it sound as though the hospital policy to isolate is an overreaction if the goal was to protect other patients.
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If the goal was to protect the unvaccinated child from the nasties in the ER, then the policy might be justifiable, but that’s not what the story related. It said the hospital wanted to protect immunocompromised kids, presumably from tetanus.
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I'm assuming that the hospital was more concerned that the child could expose immunocompromised kids to Whooping cough, Measles, Mumps, polio and the like, not Tetanus. As he wasn't vac'd, he could certainly be infected but not yet symptomatic. Tetanus shot was just preventative.
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Yes. I don’t think it was tetanus that the child was isolated for, and of course, Dr. Gorski is right that tetanus itself would not justify it.
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I think the kids vaccination status was determined when they suggested he get the tetanus vaccine. Once they figured that out they isolated him since they needed to protect other patients.
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