Midwife fined for falsifying vaccine records, giving kids pellets instead
A New York midwife has been fined for falsifying vaccine records and giving homeopathic pellets to 1,500 children instead of required vaccinations.
A New York midwife has been fined $300,000 for giving homeopathic pellets to 1,500 children instead of their required vaccinations for diseases like hepatitis, measles and polio.
The penalty, announced by the state's Department of Health on Wednesday, came after an investigation found that Jeanette Breen had entered nearly 12,500 false vaccine records into New York's Immunization Information System since 2019.
It's the first settlement of its kind for a scheme to create false immunization records, the department said.
The pellets Breen administered were taken orally as a series and supplied by an out-of-state homeopath, the department said in a release. They are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an immunizing agent.
Erin Clary, a public information officer with New York's health department, said the nature of the scheme suggests that the affected children's parents or guardians "sought out and paid Breen related to their children’s immunizations and immunization records," but that the parents or guardians were not the subject of the investigation.
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