Tennessee abandons ALL vaccine outreach to minors due to Republican state lawmakers

[vetpharmtech]

1 hour ago, Pixie.RN said:

Luckily my county in Tennessee has an independent health department that makes its own decisions. This is embarrassing. My mom had polio as a child, she was lucky and survived without any ill effects. I think people have just forgotten what it was like to lose kids to preventable diseases. At this rate, they will be reminded. 

I am happy for your mother. Again and again, when Christianity is fused in evidence-based health science, everything gets messed up.

Hopefully residents in Tennessee will find a way to combat this theocratic medicine.

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/07/15/tennessee-top-vaccine-official-got-glowing-reviews-before-being-fired/7980386002/

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A top Tennessee health official called last week for the firing of the state's then-vaccination chief Dr. Michelle Fiscus, criticizing her leadership and management skills, newly released documents show. But Fiscus' termination, which touched off a national media firestorm, followed years of glowing performance reviews ultimately approved by the very same official, additional records reveal. 

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Tennessee Department of Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tim Jones sent a memo to Commissioner Dr. Lisa M. Piercey dated Friday, recommending Fiscus' termination, according to the document released Thursday by the state health department. 

In it, Jones wrote Fiscus should be fired because of a "failure to maintain good working relationships with members of her team, her lack of effective leadership, her lack of appropriate management and unwillingness to consult with superiors and other internal stakeholders."

Uh, oh, those darn performance reviews finally came in handy. 

[toomuchbaloney]

27 minutes ago, nursej22 said:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/07/15/tennessee-top-vaccine-official-got-glowing-reviews-before-being-fired/7980386002/

Uh, oh, those darn performance reviews finally came in handy. 

Kind of sounds like they pulled rationale for termination right out of their arses. I'm certain they will maintain that the performance evaluations were wrong. 

[toomuchbaloney]

Tennessee resumes nearly all covid vaccine outreach to minors after GOP pressure paused advocacy - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/23/anger-targets-vaccine-holdouts-delta-surge/?outputType=comment&no_nav=true

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The news is the latest in the controversy over how Tennessee has gone about trying to vaccinate its young people during the pandemic and how political pressure has played a role in that messaging. Michelle Fiscus said she was fired from her job as director of immunization programs at the Tennessee Department of Health last week as retaliation for the department’s efforts to vaccinate teenagers against the coronavirus, a plan that she said angered several state legislators.

“This is about a partisan issue around coronavirus vaccines and around people in power in Tennessee not believing in the importance in vaccinating the people, and so they terminated the person in charge of getting it done,” Fiscus told The Washington Post last week. “The government is sacrificing public health to be in the good graces of our legislators; it’s a horrid dereliction of duty.”