Amanda Beach-Burge

On a scale of “Strongly Agree” (5) to “Strongly Disagree,” (1) rank your position on the following statements: 

Vaccines are safe:  5
Vaccines are effective at preventing disease: 5
Keeping children safe is a shared responsibility: 5

What is your position on West Virginia’s current school vaccine requirements (which allow only medical exemptions)? 

Maintain current requirements

In your view, what role should the state play in ensuring access to vaccines—especially in rural or underserved communities? 

I love the idea idea of mobile health clinics. Marshall University School of Medicine has a mobile clinic that currently serves the coal fields. Additionally I believe holding vaccination clinics in school two times a year would benefit communities, parents and the kids. This could be funded by legislature.

Which of the following best reflects your understanding? 

Vaccines primarily protect the individual receiving them
Vaccines help protect both individuals and the broader community
Vaccination is largely a personal decision with limited community impact
Vaccination is a personal decision regardless of community impact 

If a preventable disease outbreak (such as measles) occurred in your district, what actions—if any—would you take as a policymaker (e.g., make a statement regarding safety, coordinate with public health officials, take policy actions, encourage vaccination, etc.

I would work with the local health department to ensure accurate information, is available to the public, help wirh media/ad, see if we could off vaccination clinics. I would work with the local board of Education to ensure we were keeping immunity compromised children safe.

Is there anything else you would like West Virginia voters to know about your approach to public health, community wellbeing, and/or vaccines?

Healthy communities are happy communities. Women's Healthcare is suffering we have lost 97 OB-GYN'S since restrictive laws around abortions were passed. Additionally, access to Healthcare in rural communities is suffering and we must address it