We faced the immediate threat of our public health: a vaccine questioning the Department of Health and Service among the painful disease in yawn. Over 8,500 pertussis (whooping cough) cases of three pediatric deaths up to 2025. A disease has been declared over 1,080 patients and caused three dead in the present year. Most of the cases of measles this year occurred to people who are not maintained.
Massachusetts have one of the highest price of the country vaccine. However, there is a growing threat to the community of public community – the wrong use of “religious exceptions” of schools across the Commonwealth. Some people allegedly claim a religious exemption because personal prejudice of faith is not allowed to mass .; Others are reported to claim a religious exemption because they do not get a valid medical exit. This is the lead in the pockets of under-immunization around our state.
Two fees looking forward to the action of Beacon Hill, S.1557 / H.2554, remove non-medical discharge from regular childhood vaccines to Massachusetts schools. The fees, sponsored by Senador Edward J. Kennedy and Representative Andrew Varge Report, to help communities in communities with risk with a threat to an outbreak. It is only effective for public health with accurate data – we must hold our officers with the information they need to make their jobs effectively.
The religious conformity of school vaccine requirements is not supported by tenets in any major faith group. The vaccination was endorsed by the top scholars of Jews and Islamic, and major Christian sects including Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterian, Mormons, and Episcopalian. Jehovah’s Witnesses and scientists of Christians have not banned vaccines.
These bills are not mandatory immunization. They strengthened “the immune system” based on scientific research, and protected more to immunized children, and those who have compromised immune systems.
In addition, these bills can be sure of a safe learning environment for all children, including, in medical reasons, cannot receive vaccines. They will result in smaller missed school days and parents’ working days, and avoid mass masses to spend dollar health care. We never have “community imagery” in diseases such as measles as long as we have a religious loophole to keep vaccines away.
Many states remove their religious exemption, including Connecticut and New York. It’s time for Massachusetts to do the same. I encourage lawmakers to Massachusetts to support S.1557 / H.2554. Lives depend on it.
Richard Moriart, MD, FAAP, is a member of the Ma Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics and an advocate of families for vaccines.
