Tightening rules around vaccinations

Tightening rules around vaccinations

As outbreaks of preventable diseases have spread around the country in recent years, some states have been re-evaluating how and why they allow parents to opt their children out of vaccines, reports Evie Blad for Education Week. Requiring vaccines before school admission has been a key component of a decades-long campaign that nearly rid the United States of many severe illnesses, from the measles to whooping cough. Public health experts find the most fault with personal exemptions, also known as philosophical exemptions, in place in 19 states and typically allowing parents to opt out by signing a one-time form and without disclosing a reason. The number of such exemptions has grown over the last decade, with high concentrations in states that have especially permissive policies. The movement to opt out has spiked in part because of scientifically unproven claims that vaccines are linked to autism and because of misinformation spread online. And as vaccines have largely wiped out the diseases they're designed to prevent, the public has grown less concerned. Since 2011, Washington, Oregon, California, and Vermont have revised their personal exemption processes toward greater stringency, and Colorado has advanced a bill to require schools to collect information about their vaccination rates and provide it to parents upon request. More

Source:  Public Education News Blast

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