By Cory McCoy
February 21, 2025
Source: The Seattle Times
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Franklin County leaders want to pressure the Tri-Cities’ health district to stop offering COVID-19 vaccinations.
The move comes after Commission Chairman Clint Didier invited a group behind recent anti-vaccine pushes in Idaho to speak at two recent meetings.
Didier also is one of the county’s representatives on the Benton Franklin Health District board.
A resolution passed unanimously Wednesday morning could push the health department to stop providing, funding and promoting other vaccinations. That’s because the language of the resolution targets any mRNA and gene therapy vaccines, as well as more traditional virus-based vaccines.
The county leaders also want mRNA and gene therapy removed from child vaccine recommendations.
Gene therapy is a technique that modifies a person’s genes to treat or cure disease, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Health experts have been clear that COVID vaccines are not a form of gene therapy.
Some COVID vaccines, such as Moderna’s and Pfizer’s, use mRNA, or messenger RNA. The FDA in August noted hundreds of millions have taken the mRNA vaccines, and “the benefits of these vaccines continue to outweigh their risks.”
At the health district’s Wednesday afternoon board meeting, an epidemiologist said the Franklin County resolution was “based on conspiracy and misinformation against the COVID-19 vaccine.”
“When I read that resolution, it is a kick in the teeth to all of the work that we do,” said Brandi Williams, an epidemiologist in the health district’s communicable disease program, who was speaking for herself and not for the agency.
Pressure from Franklin leaders
Franklin County’s resolution requests the health district conduct a thorough review, presentation and discussion of the adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines by experts at a public meeting and stop providing, funding and promoting gene therapy vaccines for infectious diseases until specific legislation is passed.
That legislation they’d like to see would:
Create corporate liability for harm due to products that “use mRNA, DNA, or any genetic technology in any product, plant, or animal.”
Provide appropriate compensation and treatment for Washington citizens harmed by gene therapy vaccines.
Require informed consent, transparency and labeling “of any product that uses genetic technology for any human, animal or agricultural use.”
Prohibit mandates on local, state, national or global levels regarding medical procedures or interventions.
The resolution is largely similar to ones presented to Idaho counties by Laura Demaray, a nurse who works in Idaho and Oregon.
Demaray organized a December presentation from a group of vaccine skeptics with ties to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense. During Kennedy’s recent confirmation hearings, the nonprofit was the focus of intense questioning regarding misinformation.
Questionable experts
Wednesday’s county commission meeting featured Ryan Cole. Cole’s license is restricted in Washington due to COVID misinformation. He is allowed to practice pathology, but cannot provide primary care or prescribe medication. His license in Idaho was also restricted, but later reinstated.
The Washington Medical Commission said in a January 2024 decision that “Cole misrepresented his education and training in public presentations and to the WMC, publicly implied that a physician’s death was due to the COVID-19 vaccine even though the physician died of a heart attack six months after getting vaccinated, and misrepresented facts to the WMC when stating that he had not advised patients or the general public to refrain from getting the COVID-19 vaccine.”
They also found he provided substandard care to four Washington patients by prescribing ivermectin via telemedicine without seeing or examining the patients, failed to address other medical issues and failed to document medical history, decision making and informed consent.
He was required to pay a $5,000 fine, complete an ethics course and write a paper addressing truthfulness, professionalism and honesty in the practice of medicine. Cole was also required to take continuing education courses on COVID, pulmonary and respiratory diseases, medical record keeping and telehealth.
The other speakers who attended the December county commission meeting were similarly discredited. Medical licenses had been restricted for most, and their claims had been repeatedly debunked by experts.
Cole’s presentation also included a slide referring to the ongoing bird flu outbreak as “the next scamdemic.”
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