A proposed Idaho Senate bill would pause the administration of mRNA vaccines.
“It is the intent of the Legislature to protect Idaho adults and children from the adverse effects of experimental gene therapy and biologic products utilized as immunizations,” SB 1036 says. Under the bill, the Idaho Senate “seeks to establish a moratorium on gene therapy immunizations to ensure the safety and well-being of all Idahoans.”
The bill, called the Doug Cameron Act, is named in honor of Doug Cameron, a rancher who was “severely injured immediately after receiving a genetic immunization encouraged by his employer.” The vaccine left Cameron disabled from the waist down.
“No person in Idaho shall administer, by any route or modality, any human gene therapy product for any infectious disease indication, regardless of whether such administration is termed an immunization, vaccine, or any other term,” the bill adds.
The moratorium would remain in effect until July 1, 2035.
“We have not reached the first five years of this worldwide gene therapy vaccine trial,” Cameron said during an informational hearing on the bill. “Everybody who got the COVID vaccine is in the trial. The data has not been forthcoming, and I, for one, cannot stand by and watch our young people be vaccinated and tested with gene therapy and their unknown, long-term side effects.”
In October 2024, Idaho’s Southwest District Health voted 4-3 to remove the COVID-19 vaccines from its facilities.
Dr. John Tribble, the only physician on the health board, said that continuing to offer the vaccine breaks public trust. He said, “They show up at the door, trusting us, and we continue to break that trust by saying, tacitly or otherwise, that these things, there’s no risk from these.”
