Re Public Comment on Draft Recommendations of The Health英文资料.pdfVIP

January 16, 2012 ****VIA EMAIL**** National Vaccine Program Office, US Dept. of Health and Human Services Attn: Healthcare Personnel Influenza Vaccination c/o Jennifer Gordon 200 Independence Avenue, SW Room 733-G.3 Washington, DC 20201 Email nvpo@hhs.gov Re: Public Comment on Draft Recommendations of The Health Care Personnel Influenza Vaccination Subgroup (HCPIVS) of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) Dear Committee Members, We write to you today in opposition to the draft recommendations of the Health Care Personnel 1 Influenza Vaccination Subgroup (HCPIVS) of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) regarding influenza vaccination requirements for health care personnel. As the oldest national, non-profit consumer advocacy organization advocating for the institution of vaccine safety and informed consent protections in the public health system, we hear from many health care personnel (HCP), who oppose influenza vaccination requirements for medical, religious and conscientious belief reasons. With this statement, we are voicing their concerns and ours to the NVAC. The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has historic standing in representing the vaccine injured and vaccine consumers concerned about vaccine safety and the critical need to protect the legal right to informed consent to vaccination in America. NVIC co-founders worked with Congress to insert vaccine safety and informed consent provisions in the historic National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.2 3 A 501C3 charity founded in 1982, NVIC is supported by more than 30,000 educated health care consumers, including health care professionals, families with healthy children, and those, whose loved ones have experienc