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http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/01/29/who-knew-tightening-up-requirements-for-personal-belief-exemptions-to-school-vaccine-mandates-increases-vaccine-uptake/"...
Remember how, starting January 1, 2015, the Michigan Department of Community Health altered the rules regarding requirements for parents to claim personal belief exemptions to vaccine mandates. Basically, it patterned its policy change on California Bill AB 2109, a bill from a few years ago that sought to tighten up requirements for personal belief exemptions (PBEs) in California. AB 2109 required parents seeking PBEs to meet with a physician or other enumerated health care practitioner to receive counseling on the risks of opting their children out of school vaccine requirements. The physician would then have to sign the PBE form to verify that he had counseled the parents. Of course, in the wake of the Disneyland measles outbreak a year ago, California passed a far stronger measure, SB 277, which, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, eliminates PBEs in California.
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So has this new rule been effective? A recent news report suggests that it has:
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Statewide, 11,204 students (out of 399,880) had received waivers as of November 2015, for a rate of 2.8%. That compares to the 4.6% rate in November 2014, when 19,152 students (out of 415,891) received waivers.
So, based on this analysis, this temporal correlation between the enforcement of a more stringent standard for vaccine exemptions, the requirement that parents seeking PBEs go to a local health department for 15-30 minute counseling sessions on the benefits and risks of vaccines and, in particular, the risk of forgoing vaccines, has been effective. Statewide, PBE rates have declined markedly since the rule change. In metro Detroit, rates have declined ...
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Good news is good news.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)kiva
(4,373 posts)I've always been a bit surprised by the number of parents (based on non-vaccinated children) who apparently actively opposed vaccines. Honestly, it makes more sense to me that a fair number are just unwilling to spend the time to take the kids in if they can just sign a paper instead.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Until the kid is actually quite sick. Of course, then there is no relationship. No history, and it makes care very difficult.
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Response to HuckleB (Original post)
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mhatrw
(10,786 posts)because then some might not make the (pharmaceutically) correct choice!
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)This isn't hard stuff.
PS: Thanks for the kick!
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)And you are welcome for the kick. I am happy to help educate people about this topic.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)And that means making sure people get vaccinated.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)It only works when 80% or more of people are vaccinated against a disease.
Vaccines MUST be mandatory for it to work. It is a public health issue, individual rights be damned. I don't give a rat's ass about anyone's precious bodily fluids. Get the vaccines, otherwise you are a selfish ass of a human being.
mhatrw
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If you just take all the unnecessary crap out of all vaccines and make vaccine manufacturers liable for the small number of injuries their products cause, I would think it would very easy to get a 95%+ uptake simply by educating people. But that's me. Always with too much faith in my fellow humans and too little faith in The Man.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)let me see. 10 bucks for the MMR, or a million for a kid in ICU, who remains blind after measles. Or worst, dies after 2 weeks of the ICU.
If you are into the profit, what do you think is far more profitable? The ICU or the 10 bucks for the jab? Think hard about that one.
Also injuries from vaccines could be just having a tad more of a fever from the flu shot, and yes I could have applied to the committee... do you really think that me having to take two more tylenol and feeling run over for a day really qualified for that fund? I am sure some folks would file though, because well.
Oh and public health is partially education, but partially mandates.
One reason why Americans have become stupid regarding vaccines is that they do not see this often.
Yup that kid is blind from measles.
and we certainly are not seeing this anymore
Or this
Isn't polio fun?
Whooping cough, that baby is truly having a grand old time.
Spare me the rest by the way. I have like zero tolerance or patience for people who even make the argument that public health should not be mandated.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)See, that's how a democracy and a society work. But what does this have to do with reproductive systems?
Right now, we as a society have apparently chosen to listen to a handful of people who have persuaded a majority of us that it's not in our interest to be paid a living wage, to try to stop disease epidemics, to make sure our food supply is safe and wholesome, to provide a quality education for our children, to provide safe drinking water, or even to fix roads and bridges. This same handful of people have persuaded a majority of us that it's a very bad trade-off to pay an additional, say, $1,000 in taxes annually in order to have all the things (and more) listed above.
The poisonous fruit of this tree of rotten ideas has been oppressing our society for going on 40 years. A few people have gotten very wealthy, but far more people are slipping further and further behind every day, week, month and year, under the current system. Maybe it's time to do things differently.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)...yes, that "control" should be taken from them.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)That type of minimum requirement for a vaccine waiver should be implemented in all states.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and getting rid of PBEs
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Including Oregon, where the anti-vaccine tirade scared off the legislature.