Dr. Manny: Should Obama make vaccines mandatory for all children?

Fox News ^ | 1/30/2015 | Dr. Manny Alvarez

[Jan_Sobieski]

I am calling on the federal government to mandate vaccinations for all children, and to eliminate all of the silly loopholes that are creating chaos in so many communities throughout America. Vaccinations are not only about the individual, but they are also meant to protect the lives of others.

As we have seen over the past several weeks, measles, and other communicable diseases that were all but eradicated decades ago, are popping up across the country, and putting people’s lives in danger.

Basic childhood vaccines should be the legal requirement of every citizen in this country, except in the case of medical contraindications. However, those exclusions should only be granted by a physician or health care provider. It is not for the parent, or consumer advocate to offer an opinion that prevents a child from receiving a vaccination. All these opinions serve to do is confuse the caregiver and possibly even misinform them, which could have fatal implications for the child...

[Morpheus2009]

The fact that people are flipping out that, in a nation of over 300 million people, less than one in one million people getting measles and no one dying so far, yet thousands dead from the flu, you have really big issues for flipping out, bigger issues than measles.