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Parents with vaccine worries, we're told, are those gullible enough to believe vaccine-skeptical celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy and a now-discredited British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, who published a since-retracted study on a link between the MMR vaccine and autism back in 1998.īut this explanation is inaccurate. You'll also see, repeated over and over again, an explanation as to how this all began. Follow the news and social-media chatter on such outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, and you'll see people who resist or delay vaccines for their children being called "ignorant," "selfish," "stupid," and much worse. They were blamed for the nationwide measles outbreak that originated in Disneyworld earlier this year before that, they were blamed for the upsurge in pertussis, or whooping cough, cases across the United States over the last few years. This summer they were in the spotlight for protesting passage of California's new law eliminating personal and religious exemptions to required vaccines. So-called anti-vaccinationists have gotten a lot of attention lately. “We will be collecting data over the next few months so we can have a retrospective as well as a prospective look at where we are sitting,” she said.Artwork by Ashlee Welz-Smith Vaccination Resistance in Historical Perspective Elena Conis

Pierce said city officials will soon begin reviewing Falck’s performance on response times to see where improvements can be made. One concern is the company’s struggles to hire enough paramedics, which has been a nationwide problem since the COVID-19 pandemic began.īehm said the company, which was nine paramedics short of its goal a month ago, has fallen a bit further behind since then. He predicted Falck would be done with the “settling in” process in roughly 30 to 60 days. “It’s so that you are not wasting unit hours, you are using them more efficiently,” Behm said. The company will create models to determine typical call volumes by geography and time of day. In addition to putting more ambulances on the streets for more hours, Falck also plans to use analytics to improve service, Behm said. They started operations with 33 of their 66 ambulances as brand-new vehicles the 33 older vehicles are slated for replacement with new models in the spring. San Diego’s new ambulance provider faces criticism over response times, leadership changesīay Area officials say Falck is not meeting goals company CEO left abruptly after making San Diego dealīehm said Falck is ramping up to the promised 1,008 daily ambulance hours. “It’s starting a big, new journey for us.”

“This is a big day all around - for the city, for San Diego residents and for Falck,” said Jeff Behm, the company official leading Falck’s local operation. “This was probably not the ideal, but we have adapted and we have come out stronger and we are prepared to provide the service,” she said.įalck officials were equally positive about the switch. But Pierce said there had been no problems. One concern was that the end of the six-month transition happened to fall on a holiday weekend when call volume is typically high. “That’s what makes it such a seamless process,” Pierce said. “There is absolutely no interruption to the 911 service to our communities,” said Pierce, noting that people call the same phone number, reach the same dispatchers and will see many of the same paramedics and emergency medical technicians.įalck, a Danish company that also runs ambulance service in Orange and Alameda counties, hired many of the paramedics and EMTs that had been working for San Diego as AMR employees.