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Vaccinations rise when states button up religious loopholes (www.nbcnews.com)

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The push to remove religious exemptions for vaccines is meant to drive up vaccination rates. It's working.

In the past decade, California, Connecticut, Maine and New York have removed such exemptions in an effort to drive up vaccination rates.

It seems to be working. Maine, for example, had one of the country’s highest vaccination opt-out rates in 2017, at 5.3%. Two years later, in 2019, it passed a law that eliminated religious and philosophical exemptions to vaccinations.

Since then, Maine’s kindergarten MMR vaccination rate has climbed from less than 94% to nearly 98%.

When California passed a law in 2016 removing personal belief and religious exemptions after a measles outbreak that began at Disneyland, MMR coverage increased by 3% in 2019. It has remained high, at 96.2%, according to the California Department of Public Health.

The actions come at a critical time in America’s vaccination history. The country is on track to have the largest measles outbreak in decades, with 1,267 cases already logged this year.

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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Good! Too many people are fucking stupid with their cult thinking. We need to close more of these loopholes, separate religion from politics and tax the churches already!!