North Carolina Supreme Court has decided parents can sue schools and clinics for covid vaccines

https://www.wral.com/story/nc-supreme-court-ruling-opens-path-for-parents-to-sue-schools-health-clinics-over-covid-19-vaccines/21921612/

In a 5-2 decision, the North Carolina Supreme Court decided that despite the PREP act of 2005, it was indeed a violation of civil liberties and body autonomy to vaccinate children without parental consent.

In this case, a kid went to have a covid test, and was asked about vaccine status. They state that they tried to call his mother for consent to vaccinate, and when she didn’t answer, they decided to vaccinate him anyways. His stepfather was in the car in the parking lot the entire time. And was never asked for consent for his step child to be vaccinated for covid.

“And in our state," Newby continued, "medical workers affiliated with a public school forcibly vaccinated a 14-year-old boy despite knowing they lacked consent from both the child and his mother."

The case in question deals with a then-14-year-old Guilford County high schooler named Tanner Smith. He was given a vaccine even though he and his mother later said they were against it. Smith played football at Western Guilford High. After a 2021 outbreak of Covid-19 cases among some football players, school officials ordered the whole team to go get tested.

But when Smith showed up to get a Covid test at a local clinic, he says, the clinic workers also gave him a vaccine, even though he said he didn't want one.

Newby wrote that the student didn't have a signed parental permission slip for the shot, and that clinic workers tried calling his mother to get her permission. Despite the fact she didn't answer, the ruling says, “one of the workers instructed another to 'give it to [Smith] anyway.' The workers made no effort to contact Smith’s stepfather, who was waiting outside in the parking lot. Ignoring additional protests from Smith himself, the workers forcibly injected him with the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine."

This is also a reminder moment to NEVER EVER send your child into a medical office alone. On a personal note, I see this all the time. I have a pediatric patient scheduled who is not of age of consent in my office, and is there to see me for their initial new evaluation appointment. The kid nor the parent (usually) have ever met me. I cannot count the number of times the parent will ask “do I need to go back or can I just stay out here?” I inform them that their child is a minor, and they need to come back with their child. Separating a child from their parent in a medical setting is not safe, especially in the medical industrial complex we currently live with. Would I ever do anything detrimental to a child, or even suggest a treatment without parental consent? Absolutely NOT. Are all providers of that same mindset? NO.