Unvaccinated students have 14 days from the start of school to prove they received the first dose of each immunization, and they must make appointments for the next round within a month.
Some parents opposed to vaccinations are choosing to pull their kids from school rather than comply.“Those that are choosing to vaccinate, it’s not because their beliefs have changed,” said Jina Gentry, a Buffalo mother of four who will home-school her children rather than have them vaccinated. She said not everyone has the means or time to do the same.
New York became the fourth state, along with California, Mississippi and West Virginia, to eliminate religious and personal belief exemptions for vaccines. Maine will remove them in 2021. All states allow medical exemptions.More than 1,200 cases of measles have been confirmed in 30 states this year, more than three-quarters of them linked to outbreaks in New York and New York City, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Like those of many parents, Gentry’s view on vaccines does not stem from formal religious teachings but rather personal beliefs, including that God created people with natural immunity against diseases.
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