USMA STATEMENT: The USMA Opposes COVID Vaccine Mandates
The trend of government officials — oftentimes with little or no training in the practice of medicine — mandating the care of patients is a disturbing one, and one that has reached a fever pitch over the past few years. The arena of forced COVID vaccinations in response to the ongoing COVID pandemic is the latest, most glaring example of this overt, unbridled political overreach on the part of overzealous, untrained politicians and bureaucrats intent on forcing their will upon the general public.
The decision to administer any medication, vaccine or not, is a complex, individualized one best left in the able hands of the physician and his or her patient. For government to apply universal, cookie-cutter solutions for physical ailments is not only disruptive to society and dismissive of each patient's rights, but also represents a dangerous practice for those patients where the mandated medication may be contraindicated.
Millions of Americans have already received COVID vaccinations and millions more have been exposed to and recovered from the virus. By all accounts, this latter group has developed a naturally acquired protective immunity that is as good or even better than the one afforded by a vaccine. To force Americans to receive a vaccine against their will, and even the advice of their doctor, while punishing them with unemployment, ostracization, and deprivation from public activity because of a contrarian decision, is an abhorrent violation of the very human rights physicians are sworn to uphold.
The USMA opposes forced, universally applied medical procedures, whether they be COVID vaccinations or other forms of treatment and urge all physicians to advise policymakers to resist them as well. Physicians, not the government, should be intimately involved in their patient's decision making process and take the time to advise them of the reasons any recommended medical treatment would be of benefit to them.
The United States Medical Association is a group of physicians and others who have seen firsthand the shifting medical landscape and the lack of any real representation — often time even representation working against our interests by major organizations that are supposed to be watching out for us — such as the AMA. Those organizations are not watching out for physicians, but the USMA will.
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