New York will no longer allow parents to refuse vaccinations for their children because of religious reasons after the state became the center of the worst measles outbreak in decades.
The state legislature approved a bill Thursday that will require all children attending school or daycare to receive vaccinations, unless they could not be safely vaccinated because of a medical issue. Gov. Andrew Cuomo immediately signed it into law.
“I understand freedom of religion. We all do. We respect it. I’ve heard the anti-vaxxers’ theory, but I believe both are overwhelmed by the public health risk,” Cuomo told reporters Wednesday.
The state has recorded 854 cases of measles since September in outbreaks centered in Orthodox Jewish communities in New York City and Rockland County. Health officials in both areas have called the outbreaks a crisis that risks the safety of the public — particularly infants, pregnant women, elderly people, and those with compromised immune systems, such as patients with cancer.
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4 comments:
Letting in thousands of illegal, unveiled, unvaccinated through our southern border without even a medical screening will have its effects. Ebola will be next.
Did they not put the blame on the illegals not be vaccinated and invading the US to these sanctuary cities?
Good, Who want's them infecting OUR children. Build that damn wall.
You can thank a local employer of those illegals for putting your child in danger. And we all know who is hiring them.
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