SB277 did not anticipate future outbreaks of new diseases that would require vaccination. They need to get their shots.Īnd yet concessions made to pass the bill now have implications for COVID. Just because your kid is allergic to cats doesn’t mean they’re allergic to vaccines. But the effort was eventually victorious it is now very difficult in California for parents to get their kids a medical or personal exemption from traditional childhood immunizations for 10 serious illnesses (such as polio) without legitimate reasons.
That bill, SB277, received huge pushback from the burgeoning anti-vax movement, with actress Jenny McCarthy among others, stirring up opposition. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, a pediatrician, introduced legislation to crack down on lax personal belief and medical exemptions for otherwise mandatory school vaccinations. In the aftermath of this outbreak and several others in California, state Sen. And that “personal belief exemptions” from vaccine mandates can be dangerous loopholes that empower irrational objections to inoculation and endanger public health. The natural conclusion was that unvaccinated people put young children at risk. states, Mexico and Canada, infecting 159 people, the vast majority of whom were unvaccinated.Ī Center for Disease Control and Prevention study of the Americans who were infected found that most were either too young to receive a vaccine or declined to be vaccinated, citing personal reasons. All told, the virus made its way to seven U.S. In January 2015, an outbreak of measles that started at Disneyland in Anaheim spread across California and eventually throughout North America. 17, 2021 Lower doses of vaccine work for children.
But not if California gives fake ‘personal belief exemptions’ a pass San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board, Oct.
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