Ethan Lindenberger, the 18-year-old high school student from Norwalk, Ohio, who gained notoriety in November by asking about how to get vaccinated despite the opposition of his mother on Reddit, testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions earlier this week on a panel that consisted of medical experts.
Also testifying on Vaccines and Public Health were Secretary of Health for the state of Washington, John Wiesman, DrPH, MPH, the William H. Foege Professor of Global Health and Professor of Epidemiology & Pediatrics at Emory University, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Saad Omer, MBBS MPH PhD, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Jon McCullers, MD and President & CEO, Immune Deficiency Foundation, John Boyle.
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