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Anti-vaxers are at it again...
This is largely centered in the Satmar communities of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn and Rockland County. From everything I've heard, rabbis have generally declared vaccinations to be not only kosher, but required by Jewish law. These groups, however, have decided otherwise.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/regents-meeting-1.36104372#user=5d543fe44b2ef4366b42b634&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon-Update
Hundreds of parents and others opposed to a state law tightening enforcement of vaccination rules jammed the state Education Department’s headquarters in Albany on Monday, temporarily blocking a Board of Regents meeting that was supposed to start at 9 a.m.
The meeting opened at 9:40 instead.
Thousands of parents statewide — many of them from Long Island — have been advised by local school districts that they must arrange for their children to be vaccinated within the first month of classes, or face their kids being barred from class. Families affected previously had obtained exemptions from inoculations on religious grounds.
In mid-June, state lawmakers voted to abolish the exemption, following the worst measles outbreak in the nation in 27 years. Many of the cases occurred in New York State, concentrated in Brooklyn and in Rockland County.
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Because of limited space, a few leaders of the anti-vaccination movement were allowed to attend the Regents meeting, while most demonstrators were asked to watch the meeting via closed-circuit TV in a nearby auditorium. Many, however, pushed their way through turnstiles and stood outside the meeting, where their shouts and pounding on a wall could be clearly heard.
The meeting opened at 9:40 instead.
Thousands of parents statewide — many of them from Long Island — have been advised by local school districts that they must arrange for their children to be vaccinated within the first month of classes, or face their kids being barred from class. Families affected previously had obtained exemptions from inoculations on religious grounds.
In mid-June, state lawmakers voted to abolish the exemption, following the worst measles outbreak in the nation in 27 years. Many of the cases occurred in New York State, concentrated in Brooklyn and in Rockland County.
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Because of limited space, a few leaders of the anti-vaccination movement were allowed to attend the Regents meeting, while most demonstrators were asked to watch the meeting via closed-circuit TV in a nearby auditorium. Many, however, pushed their way through turnstiles and stood outside the meeting, where their shouts and pounding on a wall could be clearly heard.
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This ought to be good.
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