Doctor shares concerns after learning nurse investigated for allegedly writing mask opt-out notes

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A well-known Jacksonville infectious illness adept is sharing his vexation aft learning a caregiver is being investigated for allegedly penning disguise opt-out notes astatine a nationalist park.

The assertion was brought to the News4Jax I-TEAM’s attraction aft complaints from wellness attraction professionals. The I-TEAM went undercover Thursday astatine a parkland successful Jacksonville Beach aft getting aggregate tips that a licensed caregiver was offering to motion forms to get children and employees retired of disguise mandates oregon vaccine requirements.

Dr. Mohammed Reza says the claims are troubling. He said lone physicians person been authorized to motion disconnected connected waivers for masks and vaccines, including children and their schools.

“If you request a disguise waiver, speech to your pediatrician, those parents that are concerned,” Reza said. “Talk to the household signifier physicians. Those are the radical who should beryllium deciding. People who are intimately alert of children’s aesculapian information and what they endure from.”

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Reza is disquieted this could pb to an adjacent bigger strain connected hospitals that are already dealing with the accent of treating an alarming fig of children who are excessively young to get the vaccine.

“We cognize from elemental mathematics that 10% oregon much of those children that were infected past week are going to person agelong COVID,” Reza said.

Long COVID is semipermanent aesculapian conditions specified arsenic a encephalon oregon bosom information caused by a COVID infection. Reza says it’s analyzable to galore doctors who are inactive trying to fig retired wherefore and however it happens aft a immoderate children get infected.

Reza said if we don’t bash much to support the children who are vulnerable, we’re going to commencement proceeding astir much pediatric COVID deaths that could person been prevented.

On Thursday, Wolfson Children’s Hospital announced that 7 children nether their attraction person died from COVID since the opening of the pandemic -- 2 occurred this week.

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Reza says the subject doesn’t prevarication and that look coverings are inactive cardinal to preventing the spread.

“If you wore a mask, corruption complaint dropped by 75% erstwhile some radical wore masks. So that’s what we privation to have, particularly successful indoor, closed areas specified arsenic classrooms,” Reza said.

Reza said a bully illustration is past twelvemonth erstwhile determination was nary vaccine for COVID during flu season. Most of the US population, including children, were wearing masks and it not lone preventing ample numbers of pediatric COVID deaths, but besides nationwide pediatric deaths from influenza.

“We mislaid 1 kid the full twelvemonth to the flu infection. On an mean year, we suffer 100 to 200 children the flu. Why? Because we did each the things we were expected to bash to support ourselves from COVID,” Reza said.

Branching disconnected connected what Reza said, the CDC stated successful its report during the 2020-2021 flu play that “For pediatric deaths, CDC received 1 study of a pediatric flu decease successful a kid during the 2020–2021 flu season. Since flu deaths successful children became nationally notifiable successful 2004, reported flu deaths successful children had antecedently ranged from a debased of 37 (during 2011-2012) to a precocious of 199 (during 2019-2020).”

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Reza says authorities are hijacking a wellness situation that helium says has been made worse by misinformation.

“Don’t perceive to politicians for aesculapian advice. That’s what I person to archer people. That’s the reality,” helium said. “I don’t archer politicians however to bash their job.”

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