California ban on non-medical vaccine exemptions led to spike in coverage in 'high-risk' counties

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The state banned non-medical vaccine exemptions from 2016.

exemptions dropped by 2.4 percent, and medical exemptions went up by 0.4 percent during this period. Overall vaccination coverage rose by 4.3 percent,The data revealed changes in vaccination coverage across counties ranged from -6 to 26 percent, with the biggest spikes in"high-risk" counties where rates of shots were previously lower than the state average.nonmedicalVaccine hesitancy is a growing public health problem in the U.S.

Between January 1 to December 5, 2019, 1,276 cases of measles were confirmed across 31 states, according to the. That amounts to the biggest number of cases since 1992, and comes after the condition was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 thanks to vaccine programs. More than three-quarters of cases were part of outbreaks in New York.

The outbreaks have in turn sparked debate over whether parents should be legally required to have their children undergo the procedure in order to protect others from the

 

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ONLY way to ensure the eradication of many diseases is to ensure a medical passport ,so you either give free vaccines at entry points into a country or ban a person from entering ,there’s no point all these achievements if just one person gets through vaccines

That’s straight greed by insurance companies 🤷‍♂️

California literally becomes a 3rd world country. Very wealthy upper class, no middle class, everyone else poor

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