Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016/Epidemic control

Jill Stein announced her presidential run on June 22, 2015.^[1]

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See below what Jill Stein and the 2016 Green Party Platform said about epidemic control.

CANDIDATE SUMMARY
Stein did not oppose vaccinations, but expressed concerns about vaccine safety and government oversight of mandatory vaccinations.

Stein on epidemic control[edit]

On September 19, 2016, Stein tweeted, "There's a lot that we can do to combat the Zika virus as a public health crisis using non-toxic means."^[2]

On October 13, 2016, Stein tweeted, "I was part of a movement to remove mercury from vaccines. Incredibly, this public health win has been twisted to smear me as 'anti-vaccine.'"^[3]

At a town hall event hosted by CNN on August 17, 2016, Stein was asked if she was “anti-vaccine.” Stein said, “I think there's kind of an effort to divert the conversation from our actual agenda. The idea that I oppose vaccines is completely ridiculous.”^[4]

In an interview with The Washington Post published on July 29, 2016, Jill Stein said that while vaccines were “an invaluable medication,” she was concerned with vaccine safety and government oversight of mandatory vaccinations. "Like any medication, they also should be — what shall we say? — approved by a regulatory board that people can trust. And I think right now, that is the problem. That people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration, or even the CDC for that matter, where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence."^[5]

Following the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Jill Stein released a statement in October 2014. She wrote, "The discussion of Ebola in the US has been sorely lacking in a public health reality check, which Dr. Flowers has raised. In fact, the massive gaps in US health care create pockets of vulnerability, that could seed local Ebola hot spots in the US. The missed diagnosis of the first US Ebola case in Dallas is a red flag. This signal event resulted in a tragic delay of treatment and isolation, exposing up to 100 contacts, and potentially contributing to the patient's death. The diagnosis was missed because crucial information was not relayed through the electronic medical records system. Unfortunately, this is not a rare occurrence. Add to that crowded housing conditions and barriers to health care, there could be substantial risk - even potentially a perfect storm in the making for Ebola to take root in the US. The lesson is being driven home within the US as around the world: Health injustice anywhere is a threat to health everywhere. A truly health-protective response to Ebola should include urgent measures to implement a Medicare-for-all health care system to insure we are all protected from Ebola now and from future epidemics that inevitably lie ahead."^[6]

The 2016 Green Party Platform on epidemic control
The 2016 Green Party Platform does not specifically mention epidemic control.^[7]

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