Doctor Claims Gavin Newsom’s Vaccine Mandate For School Kids Is Allegedly “Not Based On Clinical Evidence”
A California doctor is speaking out about Governor Gavin Newsom’s new vaccine mandate for school children, adding that the decision is not based on clinical evidence, but on politics.
“The decision that the governor made is one that’s really based on his personal beliefs that’s based in politics,” said Dr. Houman Hemmati to “Fox & Friends First.”
“As a physician, the one thing that I’m taught, the one thing that we should all practice is evidence-based medicine, and the evidence-based decisions need to not just extend to the doctor-patient relationship, but also to policies that are made by politicians and public health boards.”
“When those aren’t done, we just have decisions that are made kind of flippantly with a disregard for the evidence that exists out there.”
As we reported, last week the Governor announced that eligible children must get the vaccine in order to be able to attend class in person. Around 35 COVID deaths in California have been children.
“We don’t want to see even a single child die, but when you look at the numbers of deaths of children that have occurred as a result of other causes, you have many causes such as motor vehicle accidents, accidental injuries from bicycle accidents, drownings, poisonings, suicides, drug overdoses, homicides by gunshots- all exceeding this by an order of magnitude or greater.”
“When you think about that, if schools really were a place where paternalistic medicine were to be practiced, where you would have a center of safety and health for children rather than just the Center for Education, wouldn’t we be focusing on the true killers of kids that we just mentioned?” Dr. Hemmati added.
California has become the first state to impose this mandate on children.