It is pleasing to see that Governor Jerry Brown has succeeded in getting a bill passed to mandate vaccinations.
From the NY Times Website:
Mr. Brown, a Democrat, signed the bill after it was passed by significant margins in the State Legislature. The new law was the subject of a long and heated debate in reaction to a strong movement among some parents who refuse to vaccinate their children against infectious diseases like measles.
“The science is clear that vaccines dramatically protect children against a number of infectious and dangerous diseases,” Mr. Brown said in a statement. “While it is true that no medical intervention is without risk, the evidence shows that immunization powerfully benefits and protects the community.”
The partial part of this victory comes in this part of the news story:
Under the new law, families with a nonmedical reason for declining vaccines will have to home-school their children. Unvaccinated children who are currently in school will be allowed to remain, although they will be expected to show proof of vaccination when they enter kindergarten and seventh grade.
Really!!?? California has over well over six million home schooled children!! (6,757,361, per a2zhomeschooling.com). Any small number of these kids could cause another outbreak. Home-schooled kids go out into public areas, such as Disneyland.
I acknowledge the dent made in the public school population; however, over 6 Million missed opportunities for vaccination is a chasm of vulnerability.
Captain Obvious did not do his work well today.
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