Coverage dated January 17, 2024

Long Island midwife fined $300K for creating false vaccine records for hundreds of students

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New York state health officials say they're now in the process of notifying hundreds of affected school districts.

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  1. Bowling Green Daily News

    NY midwife who gave kids homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines fined $300K for falsifying records (opens Bowling Green Daily News)

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    A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000. The state health department said Wednesday that Jeanette Breen knowingly gave

  2. NBC New York

    Long Island midwife faked nearly 12,500 vaccine doses — and your kid's might no longer count (opens NBC New York)

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    Hundreds of parents across New York state who thought they got their kids’ routine vaccinations are learning Thursday that may not be the case, a day after the health department issued a $300,000 penalty against a Nassau County midwife who falsified immunization records.

  3. ABC 7 New York

    Long Island midwife fined $300K for creating false vaccine records for hundreds of students (opens ABC 7 New York)

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    ABC 7 New York's feed description

    New York state health officials say they're now in the process of notifying hundreds of affected school districts.

  4. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    A NY midwife gave kids homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines. Then she faked their records (opens St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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    St. Louis Post-Dispatch's feed description

    A New York midwife who administered homeopathic pellets to hundreds of children as an alternative to vaccinations, then falsified their immunization records, has been fined $300,000.

  5. KTVZ Bend

    Midwife fined $300,000 for falsifying the vaccine records of hundreds of school-aged children (opens KTVZ Bend)

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    By Amy Simonson and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — A Nassau County midwife was issued a $300,000 fine for creating false immunization records for approximately 1,500 school-aged children throughout New York state.

  6. Fortune

    Long Island midwife who gave kids homeopathic 'pellets' instead of vaccines fined $300,000 for falsifying immunization records (opens Fortune)

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    New York ended a religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren in 2019.

  7. Fox News

    NY midwife gave children oral pellets instead of vaccines, fined $300K for falsifying records (opens Fox News)

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    A midwife in Long Island, New York, has been hit with approximately $300,000 in fines after reportedly falsifying vaccination records for many of her child patients.

  8. FOX 5 New York

    NY midwife hit with $300,000 fine for fake immunizations with homeopathic pellets (opens FOX 5 New York)

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    The state health department said Wednesday that Jeanette Breen knowingly gave children the pellets and falsified their immunization records.

  9. NBC News

    New York midwife fined for giving 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines (opens NBC News)

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    The state health department found that the midwife had entered nearly 12,500 false vaccine records into its Immunization Information System since 2019.

  10. Triblive

    New York midwife who gave kids homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines fined $300K for falsifying records (opens Triblive)

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    NEW YORK — A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000, the state’s health department announced this week. Jeanette Breen, who operates Baldwin Midwifery on Long Island, administered the pellets as an alternative to v…

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