1,500 Students Across New York State Were Given Fake Vaccines

Long Island midwife was fined $300,000 for falsifying vaccine records for roughly 1,500 students across New York State.

Jeanette Breen’s vaccine scheme had most of her patients from Long Island, yet had impacted 300 different school districts, including some in Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess and Erie counties. Though health officials have published the number of students affected in each county, they are hesitant to state the specific schools that were a part of Breen’s practice.

Breen’s falsification of vaccine records started in September 2019, only three months after New York repealed non-medical and religious exemptions for school vaccinations. Instead of administering the vaccines to these children, Breen treated her patients with the Real Immunity Homeoprophylaxis Program.

Emily Clary, Public Information Officer for the New York State Department of Health, said they “Cannot disclose this information [which schools in the Dutchess County were impacted] due to privacy concerns.”

This medication is a series of oral pellets that are marketed online by an out-of-state homeopath as an “alternative” to vaccinations. Real Immunity has not been authorized or looked at by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or approved by the CDC or the Department as an alternative against disease. Even though these pellets were not approved, Breen supposedly used them as a substitute for vaccines against the flu, measles, hepatitis, diphtheria, polio, and other diseases.

Clary said, “The individuals were school-aged children from pre-k through grade 12, approximately four to 18 years old. The State Health Department continues to partner with, engage, educate, and support school officials, local health departments, law enforcement, and other stakeholders statewide around increased awareness, detection, reporting, and enforcement of vaccination fraud.”

From July 2020, when Breen first submitted to NYSIIS, until December 2022, when she was suspended, she had reported about 12,450 superficial vaccinations administered to 1,453 different patients, only one of which received an actual vaccine.

Breen was licensed and certified with prescriptive privileges by the New York State Education Department, all while owning her own business, Baldwin Midwifery Services. Her practice was described as “Holistic with the appropriate use of technology as well as alternatives to traditional health care.” Breen’s services consisted of Healthcare counseling and screening, including the use of Herbs, Homeopathics, and Traditional Medicine.

Breen has had a history of trying to help her patients avoid mandatory immunization. In 2017, she requested an exemption for a patient who was required to be vaccinated for an employer’s influenza policy. Breen based her request on the patient’s uncomplicated pregnancy, which went against the guidance from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Center for Disease Control, who recommend that pregnant women should get vaccinated during the flu season.

Breen has misreported vaccines as “historical,” meaning that they were administered by another provider rather than being administered by herself. The dates provided for her patient’s “vaccinations” did not correlate with any tradenames or lot numbers, which any true vaccine would have. Breen has also falsely reported administering Adacel, a Tdap booster, on 407 different occasions, while never having actual possession of Adacel.

Clary says, “It is our public health responsibility to prevent disease. Infectious diseases, by nature, spread quickly among those who are not protected through vaccination. Even if the disease is considered rare or under control, there is still a danger of it reemerging.”