MA FLU SHOT REQUIREMENT ABANDONED

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Elizabeth Brehm, part of ICAN’s legal team, joins Del for an update on yet another win, a statewide influenza vaccine mandate that was withdrawn after being served with a lawsuit from our lawyers. Winning!

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0:00.0	As many of you know two weeks ago, we reported on a lawsuit that we had through our legal firm
0:07.3	Siri and Glimstad that we had launched against the mandated flu vaccine for all students
0:14.1	in Massachusetts.
0:16.3	It was an interim discussion because they had just pushed back the deadline of having
0:21.7	to receive that vaccine because of the pressure from our lawsuit.
0:26.0	Well, I have gigantic news for you today.
0:29.7	For those of you that are receiving our newsletter on a weekly basis, you know we have officially
0:34.7	won.
0:35.7	Or shall I say they have totally withdrawn the mandate of the flu vaccine in Massachusetts.
0:42.0	I believe this is one of the biggest wins of all time when we talk about medical freedom.
0:48.6	There it is, the headline from Boston.com.
0:51.0	Massachusetts is dropping its flu vaccine requirements for students.
0:54.9	Also CBS, Boston, same thing.
0:56.9	Massachusetts drops flu vaccine requirement for students.
1:01.1	To my knowledge, this has never happened before.
1:03.8	We've never seen a vaccine that's been mandated for children be removed as a mandate.
1:10.2	And so it's very exciting news.
1:11.8	I'm joined now by one of our lawyers on the team at Siri and Glimstad, Elizabeth Brem,
1:18.2	Elizabeth.
1:19.2	First of all, all I can say is congratulations.
1:23.1	These, I mean, I don't know what it's like to be a lawyer, but I know it's like to win
1:26.8	anything that I've ever done.
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