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Opinion: Vote Down HB2 Then Remove the Vaccination Mandates in the Budget

HB2, the Budget Bill, HB357, and Now Vaccine Mandates – What on Earth is Going On? Q. What was HB357 all about?  https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/billinfo.aspx?id=444&inflect=2 A. The purpose of HB357 was to end the mandates of varicella, Hep B, and HIB vaccines.  The way to achieve this was to repeal the commissioner’s authority to mandate vaccines by rulemaking. Q. But … Read more

A Review of the Laws Governing Vaccine Mandates

I participated in a forum at the University of Connecticut Medical School on November 6, 2024, discussing the ethics of workplace vaccine mandates, obviously with an emphasis on the recent COVID experience. I covered the legal environment while other speakers addressed some of the science and ethics of mandates, and the interplay between a hospital … Read more

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Another Crisis at Belknap County Nursing Home

Another crisis at the Belknap county nursing home has arisen. It must be dealt with on Monday, Thursday is too late. In a story at the Laconia Daily Sun, Michael Mortensen asked the right question, “why the commissioners were resorting to a special meeting rather than waiting for the commission’s next regularly scheduled meeting on … Read more

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