Here's what happened after California got rid of personal belief exemptions for childhood vaccines

[TexasTowelie]

Health authorities in California have more power to insist that a dog is vaccinated against rabies than to ensure that a child enrolled in public school is vaccinated against measles.

That's just one of the frustrations faced by health officials in the first year after California did away with "personal belief exemptions" that allowed parents to send their kids to school unvaccinated, according to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

In the 2014-15 school year, when parents could still opt out of vaccinations for any reason they chose, only 90.4 percent of kindergarteners in California public schools were fully immunized. That's below the 94 percent threshold needed to establish community immunity for measles, according to experts.

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Gaps like that helped persuade state lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 277, which was signed into law in 2015. It requires every child taught in public school classrooms to be fully immunized against 10 diseases: diphtheria, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenzae Type B, measles, mumps, pertussis (a.k.a. whooping cough), poliomyelitis, rubella, tetanus and varicella (a.k.a. chickenpox) – unless a doctor provides a medical reason for why it would be unsafe to do so.

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[lostnfound]

1. My kid stopped talking for a YEAR and stumbled around dazed for two days after MMR at 18 mths

It was terrifying
Language development went from a whole lot of words at 18 months to none — language stopped until age 3
His immune system is a little different than normal, which is perhaps the reason that it affected him.
I’m in favor of vaccination and he has had them all
But god damn it, we need honest research at the level of looking at unique differences in genetics and immunology, going forward. Informed by the new knowledge in the field

[still_one]

2. I agree with your premise, we need honest fully informed knowlege, risk verses reward, and there are

individuals who should not receive vaccinations because of certain allergies or family history. Problem is a lot of folks don't know their family history, and may not know the effect of a vaccine or medicine until it is given. For example someone who is immunocompromised should not have a live vaccination.

The oral polio vaccination was live vaccination, and was removed from the market when they observed that some people got Polio from that vaccination. They now only give the non-live Polio vaccination in the U.S.


I don't think where we are at the point yet where we can determine genetically who should or should not be vaccinated, but I do believe it's coming.


I hope things are doing well with your child now, and really sorry what you have been through

[lostnfound]

3. Thanks, yes. And on the other hand..

I had tears in my eyes when he got his polio shot...because my mother had suffered from polio as a child..and I am so grateful that a vaccine was developed. Humanity’s progress, thanks to scientists.