Posted on 07/01/2015 3:31:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Governor Jerry Brown signed SB-277 - the highly controversial vaccine exemption bill - into law Tuesday. California will now have one of the toughest school vaccination laws in the country.
The new law will require almost all children to be fully vaccinated in order to attend school - public or private - regardless of their parents' personal or religious beliefs. The only exception would be for children with medical conditions.
The legislation spurred heated, sometimes raucous debate leading up to its approval.
Check out the latest from KPCC 's Health Reporter Rebecca Plevin on SB-277 here.
One of the law's most vehement and constant supporters is Carl Krawitt, whose son Rhett is a Leukemia survivor and has a compromised immune system and, therefore, could not previously be vaccinated.
Krawitt previously told Take Two, “Our goal is not to keep people home from school, we just want to find another vehicle to force parents to have the conversation with their pediatrician and realize how important it is to immunize their kids, not just for their own kid’s safety, but to also protect those that are vulnerable like my son.”
Krawitt's son also joined the fight. At only six years old, Rhett testified before the California Senate Education Committee, imploring lawmakers to pass SB-277, adding, "Thank you for making sure that kids like me don't get sick at school."
Now, at just seven years of age, Rhett is an experienced vaccine and healthcare advocate. His dad, Carl, returned to Take Two Tuesday after news broke that the bill would become law. He told host Alex Cohen that he couldn't be more proud of his son and pleased that their family's efforts have proven successful.
But, he added, their fight doesn't end here. The Krawitt family plan to continue to fundraise for research to cure diseases like cancer that have no vaccines. And now that Rhett is healthy enough and almost up-to-date on his vaccine schedule, they plan to take a much needed family vacation.
Click on the audio player above to listen to Take Two's entire interview with Carl Krawitt.
KPCC's Health Reporter Rebecca Plevin joined Take Two for a wrap-up on the fight over SB-277 leading up to its passage. Click on the audio player above to listen.
But of course the law doesn’t apply to illegal aliens who bring their unvaccinated and sick children to US public schools and demand they be educated.
I see the white kid is in the back of the bus now.
The strangest thing I saw on TV here in So Cal was a lady doctor discussing the medical exemption contained in the new law. She said that if a sibling has autism then another sibling would be exempt from the vaccination requirement.
Wow, and all this time the medical profession keeps claiming that vaccinations are not the cause of autism. Can someone explain that, or has this doctor just admitted that vaccinations are a possible cause of autism?
Interesting but when I went to high school, we all thought that the back of the bus was the best place to be. It was the social fun zone.
She admitted it. Actually, its an open secret. The only ones denying it are paid pharmaceutical shills.
You know that and I know that but don't tell any one or the perpetually disadvantaged will demand it for their own.
I do not see how a genuine doctor armed with the facts could make such a statement. I don't know anything about her, but I have to wonder if she is one of those kooks who, despite a medical education, decided to go down the path of quackery. Or maybe her "Dr." degree is in a highly questionable pseudoscience discipline like "naturopathy."
Wow, and all this time the medical profession keeps claiming that vaccinations are not the cause of autism. Can someone explain that, or has this doctor just admitted that vaccinations are a possible cause of autism?
Millions of dollars have been wasted as a result of that dishonest quack who made the claim that vaccines cause autism. That is money that could have been used to research the genetic aberrations that really do cause autism, but instead was wasted to try to replicate that bogus claim.
Vaccines do not cause autism. Vaccine-preventable diseases, however, can cause brain damage which does cause learning disabilities and behavioral abnormalities. Autistic children and their siblings need vaccines just as much as any other children do.
Amen
And the FEDS, of course. A special law was passed some years ago absolving drug manufacturers of blame for autism and preventing them FRom being sued.
My problem with forced vaccination is not with the vaccines themselves but with the package of adjuvants that are almost never listed as ingredients (particularly squalene). I have no choice of producers. There are also vaccines that make sense to me (such as for Herpes simplex) and others that do not (I am not at all impressed with the record of vaccinations for influenza). So to me, it’s a mixed bag, with varying degrees of risk and hazard as such things usually are.
Most vaccines, however, target viruses that are not prone to rapid change. And they work very well. In the 1980s, I was vaccinated for measles and rubella. In the 1990s, I was vaccinated for hep A and B. A couple of weeks ago, I had titers measured for measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, hep A and hep B, and I am immune against all of them. (I had mumps, chickenpox, and shingles, which accounts for those immunities.)
I also receive a flu vaccine every year (mandatory employment requirement) and I have never had the flu, despite the variable effectiveness of the vaccine.
I will answer you here, rather than in the FRmail.
I do not speak “dogmatically”; I am a medical researcher, and one of my areas of expertise is vaccines. I do not *ever* post information that cannot be verified within the body of legitimate medical literature.
There are some very dedicated anti-vax activists who post a plethora of misinformation about vaccines. Like any propagandists, they mix enough valid information with their lies to be able to appear knowledgeable about the subject to people who are unfamiliar with it. Some of those activists engage in posting misinformation in comments section of on-line vaccine related articles published by news organizations. They are very active in this effort, to the point that they look more numerous than they actually are.
Anti-vax activism has existed ever since the first vaccine against smallpox was invented. Their rationale was that protecting people from dying of diseases goes against the will of God, since God wouldn’t have created those diseases if He didn’t intend for us to die from them. These days, anti-vaxxers do not use the will of God as a justification—they are more likely to appeal to Gaia. Despite any propagandistic misuse of medical literature to push their anti-vax agenda, their objection is just as ideological.
One way to determine the quality of information posted on the internet is to pull up the references (which should be peer-reviewed articles linked into a reliable database such as PubMed) and read them to see if they really say what the authors of the supposed information claim it says. Anti-vax website designers, however, count on the fact that their target audience does not know how to find medical literature, and wouldn’t understand it if they did find it.
Know that well, which is why I regard influenza vaccines as rather futile and possibly not worth the risk. My wife is a Clinical Nurse Specialist. She is forced to take it.
My beef is that I can't get a list of ingredients or have a choice of suppliers. There is no easy access to test data for me to asses the risk. I don't trust the FDA. I would rather put my trust into a supplier that is wary of the financial risks of screwing up.
We have allowed insurance to become an enormous problem in this country, as we continue to socialize risks. Insurers have become more financial companies than they are risk managers.
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