IN-DEPTH: Washington State Legislation ‘Updates’ Definition of Vaccine to Include ’New Technologies’

Changing the language ‘will open the floodgates to all future pediatric monoclonal antibodies and other new technologies,’ a concerned citizen said.
IN-DEPTH: Washington State Legislation ‘Updates’ Definition of Vaccine to Include ’New Technologies’
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A medical freedom advocate has described Washington state’s effort to change the definition of vaccine to allow novel injections into the state’s universal childhood vaccine purchase program as “another opportunity to enrich public health and pharmaceutical companies without liability or adequate product testing.”

Washington state Senate Bill 5982 is defined in the bill’s language as an act to “update” the definition of vaccine from “a preparation of a killed or attenuated living microorganism, or fraction thereof, that upon administration stimulates immunity that protects against diseases” to simply “an immunization.”