When my child was born they warned me that if it was necessary to take him to the intensive care unit he would need to get a covid shot. I countered that their own patient bill of rights states that a patient can never be forced to get anything against their will and since he was unable to make a decision it reverts to the parents. They called the head of the NICU in to try to steamroll me. She claimed they had had several babies with covid. I asked what cycle threshold they use on their tests and she had no idea!
I told her I would see them in court if they tried something against our wishes. Not that we had the resources to effectively go against a major hospital but I would have given it my best shot.
Because a surgical birth was necessary I was not able to be present and mom was unconscious so I told a cool nurse we needed her to go to bat for us and not allow any interventions at all: no vaccines, no vitamin shots, no eye cream, absolutely nothing whatsoever. As far as I know my instructions were followed perfectly. I know we were lucky to get an exceptional doctor/nurse/midwife team that day.
When my child was born they warned me that if it was necessary to take him to the intensive care unit he would need to get a covid shot. I countered that their own patient bill of rights states that a patient can never be forced to get anything against their will and since he was unable to make a decision it reverts to the parents. They called the head of the NICU in to try to steamroll me. She claimed they had had several babies with covid. I asked what cycle threshold they use on their tests and she had no idea!
I told her I would see them in court if they tried something against our wishes. Not that we had the resources to effectively go against a major hospital but I would have given it my best shot.
Because a surgical birth was necessary I was not able to be present and mom was unconscious so I told a cool nurse we needed her to go to bat for us and not allow any interventions at all: no vaccines, no vitamin shots, no eye cream, absolutely nothing whatsoever. As far as I know my instructions were followed perfectly. I know we were lucky to get an exceptional doctor/nurse/midwife team that day.
So happy to read your story, however, so fuckin sad to read that something like that too place in an American hospital
But unfortunately, not surprised