Bill Text: NY J01010 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim April 23-29, 2019, as Immunization Week in the State of New York

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-04-09 - ADOPTED [J01010 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-J01010-Introduced.html

Senate Resolution No. 1010

BY: Senator PERSAUD

        MEMORIALIZING Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim
        April 23-29, 2019, as Immunization Week in the State
        of  New  York, in conjunction with the observance of
        World Immunization Week

  WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative  Body  to  promote  the
health and welfare of all New Yorkers; and

  WHEREAS,  Vaccines  are  one  of the greatest achievements of modern
civilization, preventing the spread of life-threatening diseases and the
deaths of more than two million people each year according to the  World
Health Organization; and

  WHEREAS,  The  discovery  of vaccines for polio and smallpox changed
the course of world history and allowed for the eradication of  diseases
long thought to be unavoidable and uncontrollable; and

  WHEREAS,   Immunization   protects   against   diseases   that   are
historically some of the most virulent killers of  children  under  five
years old, including pneumonia and rotavirus diarrhea; and

  WHEREAS,  Vaccines  also  protect  children, adolescents, and adults
against the flu, meningitis, cervical cancer caused by  human  papilloma
virus, liver cancer, diphtheria, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, pertussis,
rubella, tetanus, and other harmful diseases; and

  WHEREAS,  According  to  the  World  Health  Organization, up to 1.5
million children around the world still  die  each  year  from  diseases
which could have been prevented with a simple vaccine; and

  WHEREAS,  There  has  been a recent outbreak of measles and whooping
cough in different parts of the United States, including  New  York,  in
part due to misinformation regarding the safety and effectiveness of the
vaccinations that prevent these diseases; and

  WHEREAS,  This  Legislative  Body  should  use  every measure at its
disposal to promote the health of our children and the use  of  vaccines
to accomplish this crucial public health goal; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim April 23-29,  2019,  as
Immunization  Week  in  the  State  of New York, in conjunction with the
observance of World Immunization Week; and be it further

  RESOLVED, That a copy of this  Resolution,  suitably  engrossed,  be
transmitted  to  The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of
New York.
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