With a proposed California vaccine law, health officials estimate four in 10 children would be denied the ability to skip vaccines while attending school.
California public health officials estimate four in 10 children would be denied a waiver from vaccines required to attend school under a contentious bill to tighten medical exemptions in the state.
California has been able to reduce its vulnerability to diseases such as measles due to a high vaccination rate. Nationally, more than 750 people have been diagnosed with measles this year, theOf those, 44 cases of the measles have been in California, which has some of the strictest laws in the country requiring childhood vaccinations in order to attend public or private schools. California only allows exemptions if a doctor says there is a valid medical reason to skip all or some shots.
“The real issue we are looking at is we have these schools with high numbers of medical exemptions,” Pan said in an interview Friday. “These schools are not safe from an outbreak. One student during spring break who travels to Europe can catch a disease and bring it back to their school. You have children who legitimately need a medical exemption and we are trying to protect them.”
Under SB 276, the state’s Department of Public Health would ultimately decide whether the underlying condition for seeking the medical exemption meets guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control. “Legitimate medical exemptions will be approved,” said Catherine Flores-Martin of the California Immunization Coalition. “Opponents just don’t like that their particular exemption may not be approved.”
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