Bill Text: NY J03311 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim April 24-30, 2020, as Immunization Week in the State of New York

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-28 - ADOPTED [J03311 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-J03311-Introduced.html

Senate Resolution No. 3311

BY: Senator PERSAUD

        MEMORIALIZING Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim
        April 24-30, 2020, as Immunization Week in the State
        of New York

  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 24-30, 2020, as
Immunization Week in the State of New York; 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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