The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
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Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/indian-health-service-vaccine-censorship?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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@ProPublica Is this basically a plan being normalized by all of the conservative governments as a way to hide an incipient pandemic? Because they think it will make them look bad when they don't know how to respond to it?
@ProPublica when I was in residency, we had a wall of ICU rooms full of 20-something year old folks sent in from IHS clinics, lying there on ventilators, dying from influenza. Every year.
The population IHS services needs all the preventive medicine we can get them. Many folks live in remote areas with limited care access, and rates of comorbid disease are high. Pushing vaccines is ethically right, cost effective, and smart.
@ProPublica To clarify, this article is about the United States health service for indigenous people.
