Gov. Martin O'Malley issued an emergency order Friday to help speed immunizations once more swine flu vaccine is available in Maryland.
The order allows paramedics, emergency medical technicians and cardiac rescue personnel to give shots to the general public. Before, they could give them only to each other under some circumstances.
Friday's order also gives Maryland's secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, John M. Colmers, the power to add "additional categories of health care providers" to the list of those who can vaccinate. He could, for instance, allow pharmacists to vaccinate teenagers. Existing rules limit them to adults, said spokesman David Paulson.
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Emergency orders...new powers
This post is a follow up on: Swine '09 Unprecedented Step: Massachusetts Deputizing Civilian 'Vaccinators' 8-13-09 "The crucial thing to understand is this: under an 'emergency' declaration everything changes (see: MSEHPA). Normal civil rights can be suspended, while so-called health authorities can be then empowered to dictate as they please.
Once an 'emergency order' is in place...all bets are off.
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Proverbs 30:5 'Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.'
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