The most effective vaccine program in American history doesn’t require a single new drug, clinical trial, or breakthrough. It requires a form for school enrollment.
But that’s changing. School vaccination requirements are being threatened from multiple angles: rhetoric from the highest offices of the nation is trickling down to state legislatures, and more people are having questions at kitchen tables and in pediatricians’ offices.
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School and childcare vaccine requirements have always lived at the state level. For most of modern history, that didn’t matter much. All 50 states landed roughly in the same place: protect kids from measles, polio, chickenpox, and hepatitis B. Every state also has medical exemptions (a doctor confirms the vaccine isn’t safe for a…