Health Freedom Idaho

Health Freedom Idaho
AbbreviationHFI
Formation2016
PurposeAnti-vaccination group
Region
Idaho
Official language
English
Executive Director
Miste Gardner-Karlfeldt
Co-director
Sarah Clendenon
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Health Freedom Idaho is an anti-vaccine group that also opposes health regulations, such as mask requirements and restrictions on the operation of businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2][3][4] Founded sometime shortly before October 2016, the organization describes its mission as including "preserv[ing] our freedoms in regard to the health care of our choice."[5][6] While the group's activities have mainly taken place in the Boise area, the organization has a northern chapter.[7]

The organization has worked with the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance, the Idaho Freedom Foundation, and supporters of Ammon Bundy on protests of public health measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8][4] The group has also expressed opposition to the construction of 5G transmitters based on the belief they could harm health and has opposed changes in Idaho state laws that exempt parents from the requirement to seek emergency medical care for a child if they instead perform faith healing on the child.[9][10] The group's website includes promotion of alternative medicine.[11]

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