Thank you to the lying Dr. who created this ridiculous “Vaccine/Autism” link and to Jenny McCarthy for creating a health problem where one didn’t exist. We didn’t have enough problems already.
Why would schools refuse to accept them? The only ones at risk would be the other students who weren’t vaccinated, whose parents have already accepted the risk by choosing not to vaccinate.
There are two ongoing investigations. One into Merck for allegedly fudging the numbers on vaccine effectiveness and one (the link above) into the CDC for fudging the data on possible link between the MMR vax and autism, especially in black boys.
It seems Merck was given an exclusive license to manufacture the MMR vax as long as they could keep the effective rates at or above 95%. Through the years there have been several localized outbreaks in populations that are considered highly vaccinated. Of course, with an excusive license to manufacture a “required” vax on the line, there is potentially some incentive to over-report the effective rate of that vax. I am interested to see what comes out in both these cases.
I tend to agree with Carly on this one. You can’t force someone to take a medical risk, no matter how small it is, that they don’t want to in order to possibly prevent a different medical risk. And if the schools decide to not admit unvaccinated students then so be it. There are alternatives. However, I also think that students who are too sick/allergic to be vaccinated shouldn’t be in public school anyway. So, if they aren’t in the school then it doesn’t matter if, I’ll call them conscientious objectors, are in class. The vaccinated won’t be affected.
So you don’t agree with the right of an informed parent making an educated decision regarding vaccinations?