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Think of it as getting the “biggest bang for your buck,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re in one of those vulnerable categories? Yes, you can think about waiting, says Chin-Hong. People over 65 might also consider requesting the special flu vaccines for this age group, which contain four times the dosage of antigens that trigger the production of antibodies. But ultimately, he says, “Don’t hem and haw about when to get it,” — because there’s a risk you may wind up forgetting to get it at all. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you do delay and change your mind, or just forget, that shouldn’t stop you from getting the shot at a later date in the flu season, he says. Chin-Hong references\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453691/\"> a recent UCSF study\u003c/a> that found just one-third of 437,000 Americans interviewed in an annual survey reported getting a flu shot from 2017-19. So, anytime is better than no time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara’s Dr. Jeff Smith also pointed out in his press conference that the longer you wait to get your flu shot, the more unprotected exposure to the virus you’ll put yourself through. So get your flu shot “as early as you possibly can,” he said, because “waiting only means that you have a higher likelihood of getting the flu.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11838740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where can I get a flu shot if I have insurance?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you have health insurance, a flu shot is available free without cost as a preventive service from your usual doctor, or most pharmacies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the flu has caused between \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/\">12,000 and 61,000 deaths\u003c/a> annually since 2010. So it’s always serious business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, amid the coronavirus pandemic, it’s especially crucial to do everything you can to stay flu-free. Especially as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11839496/california-officials-warn-the-flu-covid-19-could-overwhelm-hospitals\">officials are already warning\u003c/a> that a severe flu season could overwhelm California hospitals that are preparing for an uptick in COVID-19 cases as the economy further reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting your flu shot is the best, safest way to not only protect yourself against the influenza virus, but also to minimize the chance you will spread it to others — folks who could be at far higher risk for serious complications or even death if they were to become infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent press conference announcing the availability of free flu shots in Santa Clara County, county Executive Officer Dr. Jeff Smith issued a reminder that the flu vaccine will not protect against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. But what the flu vaccine \u003cem>will\u003c/em> do, he said, “is prevent you from ending up in the hospital,” which will help ensure that beds are available for COVID-19 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on to find out if you should be getting your flu shot right now, and where to find free or low-cost flu shot options near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should you get a flu shot now, or wait?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The recommendations medical professionals make about when to get a flu shot are based on the fact that it takes about two weeks after you get vaccinated for antibodies to develop and provide protection against the flu, says UCSF professor of medicine Dr. Peter Chin-Hong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2018-2019.htm#:~:text=It%20takes%20about%20two%20weeks,by%20the%20end%20of%20October.\">recommends\u003c/a> that you plan to get your flu shot “early in fall, before flu season begins,” and definitely by the end of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots2-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It takes two weeks after your flu shot for your body to develop the antibodies it needs to protect you from the flu virus. \u003ccite>(Queen's University/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28039340/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evidence\u003c/a>, Chin-Hong says, that your risk of getting the flu increases every month after your flu shot, due to the antibodies waning over time. (Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently said he \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/when-dr-anthony-fauci-gets-his-flu-shot-and-why.html\">gets his shot\u003c/a> “towards the middle and end of October” because of this diminishing immunity.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when medical professionals talk about strategically “waiting” to get a flu shot, says Chin-Hong, they’re aiming that advice at those who are at particularly high risk for more serious complications related to the flu. That includes people over 65, those with chronic medical conditions, women who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, and kids under 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delaying inoculations for these populations is based on the idea of getting the shot at a time Chin-Hong calls “the sweet spot,” around mid-to-late October. Two weeks later, right around early November, the antibodies should have developed, just as flu season is getting serious. Think of it as getting the “biggest bang for your buck,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re in one of those vulnerable categories? Yes, you can think about waiting, says Chin-Hong. People over 65 might also consider requesting the special flu vaccines for this age group, which contain four times the dosage of antigens that trigger the production of antibodies. But ultimately, he says, “Don’t hem and haw about when to get it,” — because there’s a risk you may wind up forgetting to get it at all. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you do delay and change your mind, or just forget, that shouldn’t stop you from getting the shot at a later date in the flu season, he says. Chin-Hong references\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453691/\"> a recent UCSF study\u003c/a> that found just one-third of 437,000 Americans interviewed in an annual survey reported getting a flu shot from 2017-19. So, anytime is better than no time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara’s Dr. Jeff Smith also pointed out in his press conference that the longer you wait to get your flu shot, the more unprotected exposure to the virus you’ll put yourself through. So get your flu shot “as early as you possibly can,” he said, because “waiting only means that you have a higher likelihood of getting the flu.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11838740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/shots3-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where can I get a flu shot if I have insurance?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you have health insurance, a flu shot is available free without cost as a preventive service from your usual doctor, or most pharmacies. 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The more children who get vaccines, the safer schools will be for all kids, proponents of the legislation say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics fear the law will effectively shut down access to waivers for kids who could be harmed by vaccines, which carry some risk, or who need them for other medical reasons. Doctors may fear the investigative provisions of the law, opponents say, and thousands of children could even be tossed out of school if they are not fully up-to-date on vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five things to know about the law, which goes into effect Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related stories\" tag=\"vaccines\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>1. What does the new law do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, children are required to be vaccinated, or have a medical exemption, to attend school. The new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276\">law\u003c/a> creates a review process that gives public health officials the final say on those waivers, with the authority to reject them. Reasons for medical exemptions must still follow strict guidelines, and doctors will now be barred from charging any fees for exams or forms related to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, the law’s author, said he was concerned when the number of medical waivers rose across the state after a previous law that he wrote eliminated personal-belief exemptions in 2016 but kept medical exemptions intact. 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Parents get them from doctors and submit them to schools, and schools with kindergartens are required to submit aggregate data to the state each autumn. The state does not receive exemption forms or information about doctors writing exemptions, according to the Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting next year, parents will continue to get waiver letters from doctors, as they do now, and submit them to schools. In 2021, the state is set to have a standardized form and a new submission process: Doctors will send exemptions\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>directly to the state for review and dissemination to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the law takes effect in January, state health officials will begin reviewing all medical exemptions at schools in which fewer than 95% of students are vaccinated. They will also review doctors who submit five or more exemptions in one year as well as schools that have not shared vaccination rates with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state determines a physician is “contributing to a public health risk,” it will report the physician to California’s medical board. The state will cancel waivers written by doctors who are under investigation by the medical board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is my hope that parents whose vulnerable children could die from vaccine-preventable diseases will be reassured that we are protecting those communities that have been left vulnerable” by local doctors selling inappropriate exemptions, Pan said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids with medical exemptions issued before next Jan. 1 may keep their exemptions until they move into the next grade span. The spans are defined as birth to preschool, kindergarten to sixth grade and seventh to 12th grades. After July 1, 2021, students with temporary exemptions will need to receive a new one each year, and no exemptions will carry over when a child enters a new grade span.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>2. How did we get here?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations have been a hot issue in California for several years, even though nearly 95% of kindergartners were fully vaccinated in the last school year. At the same time, the portion of kindergartners with medical exemptions \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/02/california-made-it-hard-to-avoid-vaccinating-kids-medical-waivers-have-tripled-now-what/\">has been rising\u003c/a> since personal-belief exemptions were eliminated. Last year, nearly 1% of kindergartners — 4,812 of them — had exemptions. In some places rates are higher: The legislation notes that 16 counties had kindergarten vaccination rates lower than 90% in the last school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/a5d34577-fae8-4b96-9afe-c8f002f888c1?src=embed\" title=\"Vaccination Rates in California\" width=\"550\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan’s latest proposal drew opposition groups to the capital for weeks of protest, at times all but shutting down meetings and regularly scheduled operations in the Capitol building. Advocates for Physicians’ Rights, Physicians for Informed Consent and parents from across the state testified against the bill in committee hearings, saying their children had been injured by vaccines and that they didn’t want to be required to obtain more immunizations. Some also said their children had autoimmune disorders or similar conditions and many feared the bill would dissuade doctors from providing new exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-vaccination activists reacted similarly in 2015, when Pan first proposed elimination of personal-belief exemptions. At that time, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95QW-kO_yo\">agreed\u003c/a> that a medical exemption is absolutely up to a physician and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95QW-kO_yo\">argued\u003c/a> that parents would be able to find a practitioner to sign a form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, to the surprise some of the bill’s supporters, Gov. Gavin Newsom also had reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, he expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-signals-opposition-to-tightening-13916178.php\">concern\u003c/a> about state involvement in the doctor-patient relationship. But after negotiations with the author and some amendments, Newsom said he would support the proposal. But\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>as the bill advanced through the Legislature, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1169027421930184705\">signaled\u003c/a> he wanted more changes. Pan agreed again and put them in a companion \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB714\">bill\u003c/a>. Newsom signed both bills into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes Newsom asked for allow kids who have medical exemptions before the law goes into effect on Jan. 1 to keep them until they enter a new grade span. Doctors also gained some breathing room in the amended version: Initially, Pan’s proposal said they would sign exemptions under penalty of perjury, but that clause was removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. The vast majority of kids are vaccinated, so what’s the big deal?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A state Department of Public Health’s \u003ca href=\"http://eziz.org/assets/docs/shotsforschool/2018-19CAKindergartenSummaryReport.pdf\">review\u003c/a> shows that California’s vaccination rates are high: 94.8% of kindergartners in the last school year were vaccinated, a slight decrease from the year before. Meanwhile, the slight increase in medical exemptions represents families who had previously sought personal-belief exemptions and switched to medical waivers, say parents who oppose the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new law, including the California Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics in California, say it will strengthen community immunity and that vaccines are safe and effective for keeping communities healthy. They also content that it will crack down on physicians “practicing outside the accepted standard of care,” said David Aizuss, president of the medical association, in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors who oppose the law say they are concerned about losing their right to say what’s best for their patients, and about the lack of liability for those injured by vaccines, explained Debra Schaefer, spokeswoman \u003ca href=\"https://www.physiciansrights.org/mission/\">for\u003c/a> Advocates for Physicians’ Rights, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CDC itself warns that there are risks involved with vaccinations, and where there is risk, there should at least be a discussion between a doctor and a patient, like with any other pharmaceutical,” she said. “This bill is nothing more than government overreach. … Doctors were scared to write (medical exemptions) before this bill; this is just creating an additional killing effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other opponents say the law tries to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Instead, it may force thousands of children to leave school or quickly get caught up on vaccines even if they have legitimate medical exemptions, said Toby Rogers, an independent researcher and prominent critic of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are missing a single shot in this bloated schedule, you are considered noncompliant and kicked out of school,” said Rogers, referring to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html\">CDC schedule\u003c/a> of vaccinations for children. In California, kids are required to receive 15-16 vaccine \u003ca href=\"https://www.shotsforschool.org/k-12/\">shots \u003c/a>to enter kindergarten. Some of the shots carry combined doses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers suggested the state focus instead on the larger percentage of children affected by such diseases and conditions as diabetes, asthma, autoimmune disorders and autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Are vaccines dangerous, as some critics say?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Critics of the new law argue that it does not properly acknowledge the risk that vaccines pose. The law states that “for all but a small number of individuals, immunizations are safe and effective,” but does not elaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other opponents say the new requirements ignore the real needs of children who have been injured by vaccines and could be further harmed if forced into more. For example, they could have allergic reactions to vaccine components or have other underlying health conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations also can have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm\">side effects\u003c/a>, ranging from fevers and seizures to very rare cases of death, according to the literature included with the medications and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1986, the federal government \u003ca href=\"https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/98/6/1179\">created \u003c/a>the National Childhood Vaccine Injury \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/5546\">Act\u003c/a>. that freed pharmaceutical companies from liability in cases of such injury. Under that law, billions of government dollars have been paid to families with children harmed by vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group Physicians for Informed Consent, which opposes California’s new law, \u003ca href=\"https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/PIC-MBC-SB276-7-9-19.pdf\">says \u003c/a>it is partly based on misinformation. The organization argues that some of the vaccines required for school are for illnesses that are not contagious and therefore do not affect herd immunity or other children. Those include immunizations against tetanus and Hepatitis B, which is first administered to newborns for an illness \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hbv/bfaq.htm\">transmitted\u003c/a> through sex and intravenous drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also point to the Vaccine Adverse Effects \u003ca href=\"https://vaers.hhs.gov/\">Registry\u003c/a> and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html\">Program\u003c/a> as evidence that vaccination decisions should be left to physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>5. So is this fight over now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal opponent of the California law, said at a rally last week that his \u003ca href=\"https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/americans-can-handle-an-open-discussion-on-vaccines-rfk-jr-responds-to-criticism-from-his-family/\">organization\u003c/a>, Children’s Health Defense, intends to sue the state to block the law. And a group of opponents this week began the process of trying to overturn the new law through a ballot measure that would go to voters next November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In case you missed it … California has a new vaccination law on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 276\u003c/a>, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law last week, cracks down on doctors who inappropriately issue medical exemptions that allow kids to skip some or all vaccines that most schools require. It gives power over the exemption process to public health officials and will create a vaccination database of all children with medical exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the law are pleased that doctors will no longer be the final authority on medical exemptions and could be investigated if they write too many. The more children who get vaccines, the safer schools will be for all kids, proponents of the legislation say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics fear the law will effectively shut down access to waivers for kids who could be harmed by vaccines, which carry some risk, or who need them for other medical reasons. Doctors may fear the investigative provisions of the law, opponents say, and thousands of children could even be tossed out of school if they are not fully up-to-date on vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five things to know about the law, which goes into effect Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>1. What does the new law do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, children are required to be vaccinated, or have a medical exemption, to attend school. The new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276\">law\u003c/a> creates a review process that gives public health officials the final say on those waivers, with the authority to reject them. Reasons for medical exemptions must still follow strict guidelines, and doctors will now be barred from charging any fees for exams or forms related to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, the law’s author, said he was concerned when the number of medical waivers rose across the state after a previous law that he wrote eliminated personal-belief exemptions in 2016 but kept medical exemptions intact. Pan said his goal this year was to keep physicians from issuing waivers for payment or for reasons that are not allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, signed by the governor last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/blog/2019/09/09/senate-bill-276-and-senate-bill-714-vaccinations-and-medical-exemptions-questions-and-answers/\">requires\u003c/a> doctors to examine patients and submit their recommendations to the state Department of Public Health. State officials will then cross-check recommendations against guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/general-recs/contraindications.html\">Practices\u003c/a> or the American Academy of Pediatrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the state is not involved in how students are granted medical exemptions. Parents get them from doctors and submit them to schools, and schools with kindergartens are required to submit aggregate data to the state each autumn. The state does not receive exemption forms or information about doctors writing exemptions, according to the Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting next year, parents will continue to get waiver letters from doctors, as they do now, and submit them to schools. In 2021, the state is set to have a standardized form and a new submission process: Doctors will send exemptions\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>directly to the state for review and dissemination to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the law takes effect in January, state health officials will begin reviewing all medical exemptions at schools in which fewer than 95% of students are vaccinated. They will also review doctors who submit five or more exemptions in one year as well as schools that have not shared vaccination rates with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state determines a physician is “contributing to a public health risk,” it will report the physician to California’s medical board. The state will cancel waivers written by doctors who are under investigation by the medical board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is my hope that parents whose vulnerable children could die from vaccine-preventable diseases will be reassured that we are protecting those communities that have been left vulnerable” by local doctors selling inappropriate exemptions, Pan said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids with medical exemptions issued before next Jan. 1 may keep their exemptions until they move into the next grade span. The spans are defined as birth to preschool, kindergarten to sixth grade and seventh to 12th grades. After July 1, 2021, students with temporary exemptions will need to receive a new one each year, and no exemptions will carry over when a child enters a new grade span.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>2. How did we get here?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations have been a hot issue in California for several years, even though nearly 95% of kindergartners were fully vaccinated in the last school year. At the same time, the portion of kindergartners with medical exemptions \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/02/california-made-it-hard-to-avoid-vaccinating-kids-medical-waivers-have-tripled-now-what/\">has been rising\u003c/a> since personal-belief exemptions were eliminated. Last year, nearly 1% of kindergartners — 4,812 of them — had exemptions. In some places rates are higher: The legislation notes that 16 counties had kindergarten vaccination rates lower than 90% in the last school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/a5d34577-fae8-4b96-9afe-c8f002f888c1?src=embed\" title=\"Vaccination Rates in California\" width=\"550\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan’s latest proposal drew opposition groups to the capital for weeks of protest, at times all but shutting down meetings and regularly scheduled operations in the Capitol building. Advocates for Physicians’ Rights, Physicians for Informed Consent and parents from across the state testified against the bill in committee hearings, saying their children had been injured by vaccines and that they didn’t want to be required to obtain more immunizations. Some also said their children had autoimmune disorders or similar conditions and many feared the bill would dissuade doctors from providing new exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-vaccination activists reacted similarly in 2015, when Pan first proposed elimination of personal-belief exemptions. At that time, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95QW-kO_yo\">agreed\u003c/a> that a medical exemption is absolutely up to a physician and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95QW-kO_yo\">argued\u003c/a> that parents would be able to find a practitioner to sign a form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, to the surprise some of the bill’s supporters, Gov. Gavin Newsom also had reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, he expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-signals-opposition-to-tightening-13916178.php\">concern\u003c/a> about state involvement in the doctor-patient relationship. But after negotiations with the author and some amendments, Newsom said he would support the proposal. But\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>as the bill advanced through the Legislature, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1169027421930184705\">signaled\u003c/a> he wanted more changes. Pan agreed again and put them in a companion \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB714\">bill\u003c/a>. Newsom signed both bills into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes Newsom asked for allow kids who have medical exemptions before the law goes into effect on Jan. 1 to keep them until they enter a new grade span. Doctors also gained some breathing room in the amended version: Initially, Pan’s proposal said they would sign exemptions under penalty of perjury, but that clause was removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. The vast majority of kids are vaccinated, so what’s the big deal?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A state Department of Public Health’s \u003ca href=\"http://eziz.org/assets/docs/shotsforschool/2018-19CAKindergartenSummaryReport.pdf\">review\u003c/a> shows that California’s vaccination rates are high: 94.8% of kindergartners in the last school year were vaccinated, a slight decrease from the year before. Meanwhile, the slight increase in medical exemptions represents families who had previously sought personal-belief exemptions and switched to medical waivers, say parents who oppose the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new law, including the California Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics in California, say it will strengthen community immunity and that vaccines are safe and effective for keeping communities healthy. They also content that it will crack down on physicians “practicing outside the accepted standard of care,” said David Aizuss, president of the medical association, in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors who oppose the law say they are concerned about losing their right to say what’s best for their patients, and about the lack of liability for those injured by vaccines, explained Debra Schaefer, spokeswoman \u003ca href=\"https://www.physiciansrights.org/mission/\">for\u003c/a> Advocates for Physicians’ Rights, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CDC itself warns that there are risks involved with vaccinations, and where there is risk, there should at least be a discussion between a doctor and a patient, like with any other pharmaceutical,” she said. “This bill is nothing more than government overreach. … Doctors were scared to write (medical exemptions) before this bill; this is just creating an additional killing effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other opponents say the law tries to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. 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What’s more, a majority of cases – 51% – have been in people who were already vaccinated: 44% had two doses of the measles vaccine and 7% had one. How is this possible?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">Back in the 1970s, when the current measles vaccine was first developed, health officials recommended people get one dose. But over the years, they noticed it only worked for 93% of people who got it – about 7% still got sick.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">So, in 1989, they recommended people get two doses of the vaccine. And that worked for 97% of people. 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Today, most measles cases we see here are imported from other countries.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But my results came back “borderline.” In other words, maybe I’m immune, maybe I’m not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The blood test is imperfect,” said Dr. Art Reingold, a professor of epidemiology at UC Berkeley. “If you have antibodies, then we’re pretty certain you’re immune. But if you don’t have antibodies you may still be immune, but your antibodies are not detectable by the test.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s possible I got a false negative. But there’s no way to know for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people who would say that’s a good reason not to do testing,” Reingold said with a laugh. “Because you get these results, you don’t know how to interpret them, people worry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now what? My doctor suggested getting another dose of measles vaccine. It’s safe. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 700 measles cases have been confirmed in 22 states so far this year, with 78 of those cases reported in the previous week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Monday’s update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/a> That’s the highest number reported in the U.S. since 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related\" tag=\"measles\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those cases, more than 500 have been found in people who had not been vaccinated, the federal agency said, including about 400 in mostly Orthodox Jewish communities in the New York region. And late last week, a quarantine order was issued for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742926/measles-quarantines-hit-2-los-angeles-universities-amid-nationwide-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hundreds of students and staff at two Los Angeles universities\u003c/a> who may have been exposed to measles and don’t have vaccination records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this latest outbreak comes plenty of angry finger-pointing at the small but notorious contingent of Americans who choose not to vaccinate their children (or themselves) against the highly contagious, yet preventable, disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as three decades ago, measles was listed by the World Health Organization as one of the five leading causes of death on Earth. But by 2000, the disease\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html\"> \u003c/a>was \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared “eliminated” in the U.S.\u003c/a>, largely due to the success of statewide public health campaigns to make the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine mandatory for children enrolling in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, however, the number of parents requesting religious or philosophical exemptions to state rules has gone up, as have reported measles cases. In 2014, the CDC reported what was then the highest number of cases in over a decade: 644 in 27 states, including one outbreak in an Amish community in rural Ohio infecting more than 300 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nvic.org/vaccine-laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forty-seven\u003c/a> states still permit parents to opt out of vaccinating their children on religious grounds, and 18 states allow exemptions based on personal or philosophical beliefs (until 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nvic.org/vaccine-laws/state-vaccine-requirements/california.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California allowed\u003c/a> both exemptions). Many parents who go this route say they doubt the effectiveness of the vaccine or have concerns that it may cause autism or other major health problems, even though no medical evidence actually supports these theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/measles-20190429/\" width=\"700\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These holdouts mark just the latest chapter in a long, robust history of anti-vaccination movements. Intermittent backlashes against compulsory government vaccination campaigns have arisen ever since the first series of vaccinations were given more than 200 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most interesting are the striking cultural similarities and motives of today’s prototypical “anti-vaxers” and their 19th century forebears: Both have typically been cast as either deeply religious or affluent, well-educated and politically progressive, and intensely protective of civil liberties and personal choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The First Vaccine Revolution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you know little or care less about smallpox, Edward Jenner’s the guy to thank for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the most gruesome and deadly diseases in human history, smallpox terrorized the world for centuries, ravaging entire civilizations and claiming millions of lives — particularly those of young children — during its sporadic outbreaks. Highly infectious, the disease typically covers the skin in large oozing, pus-filled bumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1796, Jenner, a rural British physician, tested a locally shared theory that milkmaids who contracted cowpox were immune from smallpox. Similar to smallpox but far less severe, cowpox is generally found in animals and can be transmitted to human handlers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/edward-jenner-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenner extracted pus from a cowpox scab\u003c/a> and inserted it into an incision on the arm of an 8-year-old boy. Although the child contracted a mild virus, he recovered quickly, developing antibodies that built up his immunity to both cowpox and smallpox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenner subsequently coined the term “vaccine,” from “vacca,” Latin for cow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although initially rejected by the British medical establishment, Jenner’s findings were eventually published after subsequent successful trials, and the field of modern immunology was born. The discovery paved the way for vaccine breakthroughs over the following two centuries, including inoculations for polio, tetanus, influenza, rabies, diphtheria and, yes, measles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smallpox vaccine and its later iterations proved so successful that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/features/2010/smallpox/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Health Organization in 1980\u003c/a> declared it the first disease to be eradicated as a result of global vaccination efforts. To date, there is no cure or treatment for it; vaccination is the only means of prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Birth of the Backlash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Protection from one of the most feared, miserable ailments in human history: Who wouldn’t raise a (sterilized) glass to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_16227\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/02/wolr5328.f1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16227 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/02/wolr5328.f1-300x228.jpg\" alt=' 1887 illustration from an anti-vaccination flier. Included in the text: \"This monster has been named vaccination; and his progressive havoc among the human race, has been dreadful and most alarming.\" ' width=\"300\" height=\"228\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration from an 1807 anti-vaccination flier. Included in the text: “This monster has been named vaccination; and his progressive havoc among the human race, has been dreadful and most alarming.” (Courtesy of National Institutes of Health)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Turns out, lots of folks. As word of the procedure spread, Jenner was ridiculed by a host of angry critics, particularly members of the clergy, who charged that the idea of inoculating someone with pus from a diseased animal was not only revolting but blasphemous. Rumors abounded of vaccinated patients contracting bovine diseases and suffering grotesque reactions. Enough evidence, however, demonstrated the obvious advantages of the vaccination, and the procedure became increasingly accepted by the medical establishment in much of Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-1800s, in the wake of several smallpox outbreaks, the United Kingdom enacted a set of laws making vaccinations compulsory, initially for infants, but eventually for all children up to 14 years old. Cumulative penalties were imposed on violators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These measures, though, were met with staunch resistance, inciting a series of riots. The unrest prompted the creation of the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League in 1867, whose founders were primarily concerned with what they considered a blatant infringement of personal choice and liberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s seven-point mission statement, printed on the masthead of its newsletter, included the following pronouncement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“As parliament, instead of guarding the liberty of the subject, has invaded this liberty by rendering good health a crime, punishable by fine or imprisonment, inflicted on dutiful parents, parliament is deserving of public condemnation.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 1870s and ’80s, even as smallpox vaccination techniques were rapidly advancing and helping to contain the disease’s spread, anti-vaccination campaigns continued to gain momentum in the U.K. and elsewhere. Propaganda literature proliferated as leaders of the movement adeptly tapped into the public’s understandable anxieties about the still nascent procedure. Some efforts were successful in temporarily lowering vaccination rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/lead_720_405.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11744701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/lead_720_405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/lead_720_405.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/lead_720_405-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cartoon from a 1894 anti-vaccination publication. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the largest demonstrations, in Leicester, England, in 1885, drew upward of 100,000 people, with a child’s coffin and an effigy of Jenner among the props exhibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally prompted a government commission to investigate the protesters’ grievances, which eventually concluded that the vaccine was safe and effective. But in a political move to pacify detractors, the report also recommended the abolition of penalties for violators. In 1898, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1123944/#B2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the passage of a new national vaccination act\u003c/a> removed such penalties and included a “conscientious objector” clause, allowing parents concerned with the safety of vaccinations to apply for an exemption certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The anti-vax fever spreads to America\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the late 1800s, a series of smallpox outbreaks in the United States spurred a number of local government vaccine campaigns. That, in turn, prompted fierce opposition, including a visit from William Tebb, a prominent British anti-vaccine activist. By 1879, the Anti-Vaccination Society of America was established, followed by the emergence of several local leagues, including the New England Anti Compulsory Vaccination League and the Anti-Vaccination League of New York City. A second national league was formed in the early 1900s. Activists waged court battles to repeal vaccination laws in a number of states, including California, Illinois and Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a response that inflamed tensions and helped further cast vaccination campaigns as an affront to civil liberties, public health officials commonly resorted to heavy-handed, inconsistent enforcement tactics, often vaccinating immigrants and minorities against their will during outbreaks, writes \u003ca href=\"https://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/columnists/stephen-mihm-how-to-eradicate-outbreaks-of-anti-vaccine-fever/article_4660b867-3b84-58b1-8e2e-73e631c0bdd5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Georgia history professor Stephen Mihm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744718\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 758px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Anti-Vaccination_Society_of_America_advertisement_from_1902.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11744718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Anti-Vaccination_Society_of_America_advertisement_from_1902.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Anti-Vaccination_Society_of_America_advertisement_from_1902.jpg 758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Anti-Vaccination_Society_of_America_advertisement_from_1902-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Anti-Vaccination Society of America advertisement from 1902. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fears were also legitimately stoked by the lack of oversight in the production of vaccines, a process primarily controlled by private industry that was loosely regulated and at times resulted in questionable, unsafe products. In one of the worst incidents, nine children in Camden, New Jersey, died after being inoculated with a batch of smallpox vaccine that had been contaminated with tetanus. News of the tragedy prompted Congress to pass the \u003ca href=\"https://history.nih.gov/exhibits/history/docs/page_03.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biologics Control Act\u003c/a> of 1902, increasing government oversight of the manufacturing process.s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a smallpox outbreak in 1902, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, mandated vaccinations for all residents. After one man refused to comply on the grounds that the law violated his right to care for himself, the city filed criminal charges against him. The case — \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449224/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacobson v. Massachusetts\u003c/a> — eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ultimately sided with the state, ruling that it was within its power to enact mandatory vaccine laws in order to protect the public in the event of a communicable disease. \u003ca href=\"http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-anti-vaccination-movements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The decision\u003c/a> marked the first Supreme Court case determining the extent of state power in enacting public health law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Modern times\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Anti-vaccination fervor erupted again in England and spread abroad in the latter half of the 20th century, this time after an errant 1970s medical study alleged that the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine had caused neurological disorders in children. The report fueled a wave of public outcry and subsequent false analyses, leading to decreased vaccination rates and three major outbreaks of pertussis (whooping cough), despite an independent advisory committee confirming the safety of the immunization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy over DTP reached the United States after a 1982 documentary, “DPT: Vaccination Roulette,” and a 1991 book, “A Shot in the Dark,” alleged adverse reactions to the vaccine and questioned its effectiveness. Amid the ensuing media storm, scores of parents formed advocacy groups opposing the immunization and, in several cases, sued vaccine manufacturers. Hoping to not repeat England’s example, U.S. medical organizations, like the Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aggressively countered the false claims, and more effectively stemmed the decrease in vaccination rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11744712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An anti-vaccination parent holds up a prescription document as she waits to enter a hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 2019. \u003ccite>(Jim WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then came the \u003cem>anti\u003c/em> anti-measles movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the MMR vaccine’s safe and effective application since it was introduced in the 1960s, fear over the inoculation spread like wildfire after a 1998 medical study, and a subsequent flurry of media coverage, suggested a connection between the vaccine and the onset of autism. The study was later discredited, and an independent medical board determined that its author, British doctor Andrew Wakefield, had a “fatal conflict of interest” \u003ca href=\"https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-anti-vaccination-movements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after revelations\u003c/a> that he had been paid by lawyers representing parents who believed the vaccine had harmed their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a decade later, after numerous subsequent studies that found no evidence of any link between the vaccine and autism, the paper was formally retracted by The Lancet, the journal that first published it, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/02/lancet-retracts-mmr-paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labeled “utterly false.”\u003c/a> Wakefield \u003ca href=\"https://www.mdmag.com/medical-news/autism_doctor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was also stripped of his medical license\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the seed had been planted, and parents already skeptical about immunizing their children were further motivated to avoid the vaccine at all costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, fears have been further inflamed by a number of anti-vaccination campaigns suggesting the linkage to an increased incidence of autism. Perhaps most well-known is the ongoing activism of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/10/jenny-mccarthy-talks-to-cnbc-about-autism-and-her-family.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actress and model Jenny McCarthy\u003c/a>, who became the veritable poster child of the anti-vax movement when she began publicly questioning the safety of vaccines after her 2-year-old son was diagnosed with autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those cases, more than 500 have been found in people who had not been vaccinated, the federal agency said, including about 400 in mostly Orthodox Jewish communities in the New York region. And late last week, a quarantine order was issued for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742926/measles-quarantines-hit-2-los-angeles-universities-amid-nationwide-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hundreds of students and staff at two Los Angeles universities\u003c/a> who may have been exposed to measles and don’t have vaccination records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this latest outbreak comes plenty of angry finger-pointing at the small but notorious contingent of Americans who choose not to vaccinate their children (or themselves) against the highly contagious, yet preventable, disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as three decades ago, measles was listed by the World Health Organization as one of the five leading causes of death on Earth. But by 2000, the disease\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html\"> \u003c/a>was \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared “eliminated” in the U.S.\u003c/a>, largely due to the success of statewide public health campaigns to make the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine mandatory for children enrolling in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, however, the number of parents requesting religious or philosophical exemptions to state rules has gone up, as have reported measles cases. In 2014, the CDC reported what was then the highest number of cases in over a decade: 644 in 27 states, including one outbreak in an Amish community in rural Ohio infecting more than 300 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nvic.org/vaccine-laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forty-seven\u003c/a> states still permit parents to opt out of vaccinating their children on religious grounds, and 18 states allow exemptions based on personal or philosophical beliefs (until 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nvic.org/vaccine-laws/state-vaccine-requirements/california.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California allowed\u003c/a> both exemptions). Many parents who go this route say they doubt the effectiveness of the vaccine or have concerns that it may cause autism or other major health problems, even though no medical evidence actually supports these theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/measles-20190429/\" width=\"700\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These holdouts mark just the latest chapter in a long, robust history of anti-vaccination movements. Intermittent backlashes against compulsory government vaccination campaigns have arisen ever since the first series of vaccinations were given more than 200 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most interesting are the striking cultural similarities and motives of today’s prototypical “anti-vaxers” and their 19th century forebears: Both have typically been cast as either deeply religious or affluent, well-educated and politically progressive, and intensely protective of civil liberties and personal choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The First Vaccine Revolution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you know little or care less about smallpox, Edward Jenner’s the guy to thank for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the most gruesome and deadly diseases in human history, smallpox terrorized the world for centuries, ravaging entire civilizations and claiming millions of lives — particularly those of young children — during its sporadic outbreaks. Highly infectious, the disease typically covers the skin in large oozing, pus-filled bumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1796, Jenner, a rural British physician, tested a locally shared theory that milkmaids who contracted cowpox were immune from smallpox. Similar to smallpox but far less severe, cowpox is generally found in animals and can be transmitted to human handlers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/edward-jenner-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenner extracted pus from a cowpox scab\u003c/a> and inserted it into an incision on the arm of an 8-year-old boy. Although the child contracted a mild virus, he recovered quickly, developing antibodies that built up his immunity to both cowpox and smallpox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenner subsequently coined the term “vaccine,” from “vacca,” Latin for cow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although initially rejected by the British medical establishment, Jenner’s findings were eventually published after subsequent successful trials, and the field of modern immunology was born. The discovery paved the way for vaccine breakthroughs over the following two centuries, including inoculations for polio, tetanus, influenza, rabies, diphtheria and, yes, measles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smallpox vaccine and its later iterations proved so successful that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/features/2010/smallpox/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Health Organization in 1980\u003c/a> declared it the first disease to be eradicated as a result of global vaccination efforts. To date, there is no cure or treatment for it; vaccination is the only means of prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Birth of the Backlash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Protection from one of the most feared, miserable ailments in human history: Who wouldn’t raise a (sterilized) glass to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_16227\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/02/wolr5328.f1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16227 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/02/wolr5328.f1-300x228.jpg\" alt=' 1887 illustration from an anti-vaccination flier. Included in the text: \"This monster has been named vaccination; and his progressive havoc among the human race, has been dreadful and most alarming.\" ' width=\"300\" height=\"228\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration from an 1807 anti-vaccination flier. Included in the text: “This monster has been named vaccination; and his progressive havoc among the human race, has been dreadful and most alarming.” (Courtesy of National Institutes of Health)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Turns out, lots of folks. As word of the procedure spread, Jenner was ridiculed by a host of angry critics, particularly members of the clergy, who charged that the idea of inoculating someone with pus from a diseased animal was not only revolting but blasphemous. Rumors abounded of vaccinated patients contracting bovine diseases and suffering grotesque reactions. Enough evidence, however, demonstrated the obvious advantages of the vaccination, and the procedure became increasingly accepted by the medical establishment in much of Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-1800s, in the wake of several smallpox outbreaks, the United Kingdom enacted a set of laws making vaccinations compulsory, initially for infants, but eventually for all children up to 14 years old. Cumulative penalties were imposed on violators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These measures, though, were met with staunch resistance, inciting a series of riots. The unrest prompted the creation of the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League in 1867, whose founders were primarily concerned with what they considered a blatant infringement of personal choice and liberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s seven-point mission statement, printed on the masthead of its newsletter, included the following pronouncement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“As parliament, instead of guarding the liberty of the subject, has invaded this liberty by rendering good health a crime, punishable by fine or imprisonment, inflicted on dutiful parents, parliament is deserving of public condemnation.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 1870s and ’80s, even as smallpox vaccination techniques were rapidly advancing and helping to contain the disease’s spread, anti-vaccination campaigns continued to gain momentum in the U.K. and elsewhere. Propaganda literature proliferated as leaders of the movement adeptly tapped into the public’s understandable anxieties about the still nascent procedure. Some efforts were successful in temporarily lowering vaccination rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/lead_720_405.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11744701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/lead_720_405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/lead_720_405.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/lead_720_405-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cartoon from a 1894 anti-vaccination publication. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the largest demonstrations, in Leicester, England, in 1885, drew upward of 100,000 people, with a child’s coffin and an effigy of Jenner among the props exhibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally prompted a government commission to investigate the protesters’ grievances, which eventually concluded that the vaccine was safe and effective. But in a political move to pacify detractors, the report also recommended the abolition of penalties for violators. In 1898, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1123944/#B2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the passage of a new national vaccination act\u003c/a> removed such penalties and included a “conscientious objector” clause, allowing parents concerned with the safety of vaccinations to apply for an exemption certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The anti-vax fever spreads to America\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the late 1800s, a series of smallpox outbreaks in the United States spurred a number of local government vaccine campaigns. That, in turn, prompted fierce opposition, including a visit from William Tebb, a prominent British anti-vaccine activist. By 1879, the Anti-Vaccination Society of America was established, followed by the emergence of several local leagues, including the New England Anti Compulsory Vaccination League and the Anti-Vaccination League of New York City. A second national league was formed in the early 1900s. Activists waged court battles to repeal vaccination laws in a number of states, including California, Illinois and Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a response that inflamed tensions and helped further cast vaccination campaigns as an affront to civil liberties, public health officials commonly resorted to heavy-handed, inconsistent enforcement tactics, often vaccinating immigrants and minorities against their will during outbreaks, writes \u003ca href=\"https://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/columnists/stephen-mihm-how-to-eradicate-outbreaks-of-anti-vaccine-fever/article_4660b867-3b84-58b1-8e2e-73e631c0bdd5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Georgia history professor Stephen Mihm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744718\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 758px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Anti-Vaccination_Society_of_America_advertisement_from_1902.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11744718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Anti-Vaccination_Society_of_America_advertisement_from_1902.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Anti-Vaccination_Society_of_America_advertisement_from_1902.jpg 758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Anti-Vaccination_Society_of_America_advertisement_from_1902-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Anti-Vaccination Society of America advertisement from 1902. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fears were also legitimately stoked by the lack of oversight in the production of vaccines, a process primarily controlled by private industry that was loosely regulated and at times resulted in questionable, unsafe products. In one of the worst incidents, nine children in Camden, New Jersey, died after being inoculated with a batch of smallpox vaccine that had been contaminated with tetanus. News of the tragedy prompted Congress to pass the \u003ca href=\"https://history.nih.gov/exhibits/history/docs/page_03.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biologics Control Act\u003c/a> of 1902, increasing government oversight of the manufacturing process.s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a smallpox outbreak in 1902, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, mandated vaccinations for all residents. After one man refused to comply on the grounds that the law violated his right to care for himself, the city filed criminal charges against him. The case — \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449224/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacobson v. Massachusetts\u003c/a> — eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ultimately sided with the state, ruling that it was within its power to enact mandatory vaccine laws in order to protect the public in the event of a communicable disease. \u003ca href=\"http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-anti-vaccination-movements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The decision\u003c/a> marked the first Supreme Court case determining the extent of state power in enacting public health law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Modern times\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Anti-vaccination fervor erupted again in England and spread abroad in the latter half of the 20th century, this time after an errant 1970s medical study alleged that the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine had caused neurological disorders in children. The report fueled a wave of public outcry and subsequent false analyses, leading to decreased vaccination rates and three major outbreaks of pertussis (whooping cough), despite an independent advisory committee confirming the safety of the immunization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy over DTP reached the United States after a 1982 documentary, “DPT: Vaccination Roulette,” and a 1991 book, “A Shot in the Dark,” alleged adverse reactions to the vaccine and questioned its effectiveness. Amid the ensuing media storm, scores of parents formed advocacy groups opposing the immunization and, in several cases, sued vaccine manufacturers. Hoping to not repeat England’s example, U.S. medical organizations, like the Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aggressively countered the false claims, and more effectively stemmed the decrease in vaccination rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11744712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/GettyImages-1128753684-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An anti-vaccination parent holds up a prescription document as she waits to enter a hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 2019. \u003ccite>(Jim WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then came the \u003cem>anti\u003c/em> anti-measles movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the MMR vaccine’s safe and effective application since it was introduced in the 1960s, fear over the inoculation spread like wildfire after a 1998 medical study, and a subsequent flurry of media coverage, suggested a connection between the vaccine and the onset of autism. The study was later discredited, and an independent medical board determined that its author, British doctor Andrew Wakefield, had a “fatal conflict of interest” \u003ca href=\"https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-anti-vaccination-movements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after revelations\u003c/a> that he had been paid by lawyers representing parents who believed the vaccine had harmed their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a decade later, after numerous subsequent studies that found no evidence of any link between the vaccine and autism, the paper was formally retracted by The Lancet, the journal that first published it, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/02/lancet-retracts-mmr-paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labeled “utterly false.”\u003c/a> Wakefield \u003ca href=\"https://www.mdmag.com/medical-news/autism_doctor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was also stripped of his medical license\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the seed had been planted, and parents already skeptical about immunizing their children were further motivated to avoid the vaccine at all costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, fears have been further inflamed by a number of anti-vaccination campaigns suggesting the linkage to an increased incidence of autism. Perhaps most well-known is the ongoing activism of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/10/jenny-mccarthy-talks-to-cnbc-about-autism-and-her-family.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actress and model Jenny McCarthy\u003c/a>, who became the veritable poster child of the anti-vax movement when she began publicly questioning the safety of vaccines after her 2-year-old son was diagnosed with autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State lawmakers launched debate Wednesday on a new bill targeting doctors who write fraudulent medical notes to excuse children from getting vaccinations required to enter school. The hearing coincided with the recent declaration of measles outbreaks in Los Angeles and Butte County, bringing the number of cases of the virus to more than 30 statewide this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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Richard Pan, who is also a pediatrician']‘We witnessed physicians who advertised exemptions for cash on social media and the internet.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new legislation would require the state health department to review all medical exemptions and either approve or deny them. It would also create a database to track which doctors are issuing a disproportionate number of medical exemptions. About a hundred doctors, medical students, parents and representatives of hospital and insurance groups lined up to state their support of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics flooded the state Capitol to voice their opposition to the proposal, with hundreds and hundreds of parents, and a handful doctors, lining up for hours to complain of government overreach and interference in the doctor-patient relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in vaccines. I vaccinate my patients and my own children,” said Dr. Nicole Shorrock, a pediatrician from Sacramento. “But I cannot support this bill because it is too extreme. Patients have a right to have their medical treatment determined by their doctor, not a governmental appointee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Dr. Nicole Shorrock']‘Patients have a right to have their medical treatment determined by their doctor, not a governmental appointee.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new bill is a follow-up to Sen. Pan’s earlier law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 277\u003c/a>, passed in 2015, which outlawed personal belief exemptions from vaccinations. Since then, the number of children getting medical exemptions more than tripled, from .2 percent to .7 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other states – West Virginia and Mississippi – do not allow exemptions from vaccines for religious or personal reasons. West Virginia requires its state health department to vet medical exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, California’s vaccination rate among children entering kindergarten went up in recent years to 95.6 percent, a level public health experts say is needed to create community immunity — when enough of the population is immunized to protect people who cannot be vaccinated, such as infants and people with compromised immune systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='immunizations' label='Coverage of vaccines and immunizations']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the rising number of medical exemptions is showing up in clusters around the state — in concentrations inconsistent with the number of people who legitimately cannot be vaccinated — and that is leaving some schools with vaccination rates lower than 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students at these schools are at risk for a major outbreak,” said Sen. 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How do those scientists figure out which to value more?[contextly_sidebar id=\"vM6M1R2zIUt7PSfniSijCNeI1SXmNMTL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dilemma was at the center of last week’s decision by an expert committee advising the World Health Organization to sharply scale back use of a controversial vaccine called Dengvaxia, the first to protect against dengue infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, many of the same experts concluded the vaccine was safe to use in children 9 and older in places where dengue infection is almost unavoidable — even though there were strong theoretical concerns the vaccine might put some vaccinated kids at higher risk of developing a severe form of dengue. Severe dengue can lead to internal bleeding, shock, and even death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last year, theory was shown to be reality. After reviewing the data, the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunizations — knows as the SAGE — shifted its stance, recommending last week that the vaccine be given only to children who test positive for a previous dengue infection. A point-of-care blood test doesn’t currently exist, leaving the vaccine’s future in limbo for now.[contextly_sidebar id=\"j6YzLYuARPhSnQ2nKylAVpIU8wdsgIj2\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benefits trumped theoretical risks. But real risks trumped real benefits — even though the latter outnumbered the former.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A variety of factors influence these decisions, according to interviews with public health experts and ethicists who have made or studied them. The severity of disease being prevented and the treatability of the side effects being caused are crucial, as are ethics, public perceptions, and politics. And critically, these days, so is the likelihood that any negative attention generated by one vaccine might stain the reputations of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Art Reingold has been involved in countless debates of this type, having served for more than a dozen years on first the SAGE, and later on the corresponding body that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP.[contextly_sidebar id=\"xdscPdRSoRoclTtqbEFBgO7cpt3QJHtx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that for many individuals having to vote or being on these committees and weigh in, many of them spend an awful lot of time looking at data and reviewing it and struggling with it when it’s not a slam dunk,” said Reingold, who teaches infectious diseases epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley’s school of public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reingold, whose term on ACIP concluded at the end of last year, noted that while many of that panel’s votes are close to unanimous, some recommendations — or decisions not to recommend a vaccine — are decided by a narrow vote. “And obviously in that instance pretty smart people have come down on different sides of the same question by weighing effectively all the same evidence,’’ he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Vaccine Calculus\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>In some cases, these decisions aren’t that difficult. A flu shot can trigger Guillain-Barre syndrome, though this adverse event is very rare. But influenza infection can also provoke this disorder, a form of progressive paralysis from which most people recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other circumstances, the position of the scales — which side is higher, which is lower — tilts over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oral polio vaccine has saved untold millions of children from paralysis in the more than half-century it has been in use. But in rare instances the vaccine also paralyzes, a fact that became clear in the first year of its use, back in the early 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the paralysis occurs in the child who got the dose of vaccine, or in a close contact of that child, as was reported in 1962. Other times the weakened viruses in the vaccine circulate among unvaccinated children, who ingest them in water or food contaminated with traces of feces. As the viruses travel from gut to gut, they can go rogue — regain the power to paralyze. That phenomenon was first observed in 2000. Yet oral polio vaccine is still used today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"4xoAKYJE6AnYbA5mfYOPli4oSCgYa7Q4\"]As polio eradication efforts have driven down the polio case count to very low levels, the toll of vaccine-related paralysis can surpass the damage caused by the viruses themselves. Last year there were 22 children in the world paralyzed by polioviruses; vaccine viruses crippled 96.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shifting of the risk-benefit ratio for oral polio vaccine led the United States to switch exclusively to injectable polio vaccine in 2000. In 1996, when the decision to phase out oral vaccine was made, eight or nine children a year were being paralyzed by the vaccine, though polio itself hadn’t paralyzed a child in the United States for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk posed by the oral vaccine became intolerable, given there was a safer, albeit more expensive alternative — the injectable polio vaccine does not paralyze. “Obviously thinking on these things can change. The risks and benefits relatively speaking can change,” Reingold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the formulation of the oral vaccines was altered to drop the component that protected against type 2 polioviruses. That part of the vaccine was the most likely to regain the power to paralyze. Type 2 viruses had disappeared in 1999; there was too little benefit and too much risk associated with keeping them in the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Dengvaxia, the calculus is not as clear cut. Evidence suggests that in places where about 70 percent of people have been infected at least once with dengue, the vaccine would prevent seven children from getting sick enough to need hospital care for every additional hospitalized case it provoked. In places where 85 percent of people have been infected, there would be 18 hospitalized cases prevented for every one the vaccine created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some dengue experts have argued those benefits should not be ignored. Others argue those risks cannot ethically be incurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YfGTYns6XDY9Onrzu1EUV5DkCwM08fCc\"]The SAGE deliberated over whether it was permissible to use rates of local dengue infection as a substitute for individual testing — in other words, could the vaccine be given, as it had previously recommended, in places where studies show most people have been infected at least once?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They concluded both options pose real-world challenges, given the current lack of a rapid, accurate test. But they also noted there is no evidence to date that children who have never been infected with dengue — the ones the vaccine could harm — would ever experience a benefit from Dengvaxia. They worried that wide-scale dengue vaccination programs might be “ethically problematic and have adverse implications for trust and the long-term success of public health programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mounting Distrust\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Why have oral polio vaccine risks been tolerated, but Dengvaxia’s deemed serious enough to effectively shelve the vaccine? Here the factors named above plus timing surely play a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts making these types of decisions these days are doing so in a climate of litigiousness and mounting vaccine refusal and hesitancy. Headlines questioning the safety of one vaccine threaten to fuel rejection of others. The government of the Philippines, where Dengvaxia has been given to more than 800,000 children, has threatened legal action against its manufacturer, Sanofi Pasteur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public has a whole new understanding of science, data, facts, and fake news,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy. “We’ve surely had an anti-science movement well before the current situation, but it’s never been as acute.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"MRQx4tKZn53WSvNmnqGKkUDbBGs0RMX9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the issue of who gets vaccinated. Most of these products are designed to protect children, who hold a special position in discussions of the ethics of medical treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ethical bar must be placed higher when it comes to kids, because they cannot make an informed decision for themselves, said Art Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University’s school of medicine. “So I think the issue is not just: Could we accept huge benefits for small risks? Because I think the answer to that is yes. But I think it’s: Can we accept huge benefits for small risks to very vulnerable children?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have that child population put knowingly at risk, it gets really hard from the ethics point of view to ignore that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And society’s tolerance of risk has changed, Caplan argued, pointing to the so-called Cutter incident to make his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1955, it was discovered that children had been mistakenly injected with polio vaccine that contained live viruses. The process by which the viruses in the vaccine were supposed to be inactivated — killed — hadn’t worked. Fifty-one children in the U.S. were paralyzed and five died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the 1950s, polio was an enormous threat. Parents lived in fear their children would end up in an iron lung. Polio vaccination resumed. The company that made the vaccine, Cutter Laboratories, didn’t even go out of business. If a similar incident were to happen today, Caplan said, “it would have shut everything down forever.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"TB4CDGkuuXqcHsBv1pEbtZgMooHhybmV\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to the case of RotaShield, the first vaccine licensed to protect against rotavirus infection. These common viruses cause devastating bouts of diarrhea in young children, who can end up in the hospital as a result. Every year some children died of these infections in the U.S., but rotaviruses did more damage in the developing world, where stricken kids didn’t have easy access to hospital care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RotaShield was approved in the U.S. in 1998. A year later, Wyeth Laboratories withdrew it from the market after studies showed babies who got it were at greater risk of developing intussusception, a type of bowel blockage that can kill if it isn’t corrected in time. The CDC estimated that for every 10,000 children vaccinated with RotaShield there would be one or two additional cases of intussusception over what is normally seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts argued that the vaccine should still be marketed in the developing world, where the number of lives saved would far outstrip the cases of intussusception. The WHO estimated that in 2004, more than half a million children died from rotavirus infections, the lion’s share in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about the risk-benefit equation in a poor country, almost certainly it would have been far better in terms of illness — preventable deaths averted, cost of care reduced — to continue to use that initial rotavirus vaccine or rather to introduce it and use it in poor countries,” Reingold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the vaccine’s fate was sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is that the politics around the thing — this vaccine isn’t good enough for rich white children in the United States but it’s OK for poor black children in poor countries — were a non-starter,” he said. “I mean, it just doesn’t sell. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benefits trumped theoretical risks. But real risks trumped real benefits — even though the latter outnumbered the former.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A variety of factors influence these decisions, according to interviews with public health experts and ethicists who have made or studied them. The severity of disease being prevented and the treatability of the side effects being caused are crucial, as are ethics, public perceptions, and politics. And critically, these days, so is the likelihood that any negative attention generated by one vaccine might stain the reputations of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Art Reingold has been involved in countless debates of this type, having served for more than a dozen years on first the SAGE, and later on the corresponding body that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that for many individuals having to vote or being on these committees and weigh in, many of them spend an awful lot of time looking at data and reviewing it and struggling with it when it’s not a slam dunk,” said Reingold, who teaches infectious diseases epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley’s school of public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reingold, whose term on ACIP concluded at the end of last year, noted that while many of that panel’s votes are close to unanimous, some recommendations — or decisions not to recommend a vaccine — are decided by a narrow vote. “And obviously in that instance pretty smart people have come down on different sides of the same question by weighing effectively all the same evidence,’’ he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Vaccine Calculus\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>In some cases, these decisions aren’t that difficult. A flu shot can trigger Guillain-Barre syndrome, though this adverse event is very rare. But influenza infection can also provoke this disorder, a form of progressive paralysis from which most people recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other circumstances, the position of the scales — which side is higher, which is lower — tilts over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oral polio vaccine has saved untold millions of children from paralysis in the more than half-century it has been in use. But in rare instances the vaccine also paralyzes, a fact that became clear in the first year of its use, back in the early 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the paralysis occurs in the child who got the dose of vaccine, or in a close contact of that child, as was reported in 1962. Other times the weakened viruses in the vaccine circulate among unvaccinated children, who ingest them in water or food contaminated with traces of feces. As the viruses travel from gut to gut, they can go rogue — regain the power to paralyze. That phenomenon was first observed in 2000. Yet oral polio vaccine is still used today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>As polio eradication efforts have driven down the polio case count to very low levels, the toll of vaccine-related paralysis can surpass the damage caused by the viruses themselves. Last year there were 22 children in the world paralyzed by polioviruses; vaccine viruses crippled 96.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shifting of the risk-benefit ratio for oral polio vaccine led the United States to switch exclusively to injectable polio vaccine in 2000. In 1996, when the decision to phase out oral vaccine was made, eight or nine children a year were being paralyzed by the vaccine, though polio itself hadn’t paralyzed a child in the United States for over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk posed by the oral vaccine became intolerable, given there was a safer, albeit more expensive alternative — the injectable polio vaccine does not paralyze. “Obviously thinking on these things can change. The risks and benefits relatively speaking can change,” Reingold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the formulation of the oral vaccines was altered to drop the component that protected against type 2 polioviruses. That part of the vaccine was the most likely to regain the power to paralyze. Type 2 viruses had disappeared in 1999; there was too little benefit and too much risk associated with keeping them in the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Dengvaxia, the calculus is not as clear cut. Evidence suggests that in places where about 70 percent of people have been infected at least once with dengue, the vaccine would prevent seven children from getting sick enough to need hospital care for every additional hospitalized case it provoked. In places where 85 percent of people have been infected, there would be 18 hospitalized cases prevented for every one the vaccine created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some dengue experts have argued those benefits should not be ignored. Others argue those risks cannot ethically be incurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The SAGE deliberated over whether it was permissible to use rates of local dengue infection as a substitute for individual testing — in other words, could the vaccine be given, as it had previously recommended, in places where studies show most people have been infected at least once?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They concluded both options pose real-world challenges, given the current lack of a rapid, accurate test. But they also noted there is no evidence to date that children who have never been infected with dengue — the ones the vaccine could harm — would ever experience a benefit from Dengvaxia. They worried that wide-scale dengue vaccination programs might be “ethically problematic and have adverse implications for trust and the long-term success of public health programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mounting Distrust\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Why have oral polio vaccine risks been tolerated, but Dengvaxia’s deemed serious enough to effectively shelve the vaccine? Here the factors named above plus timing surely play a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts making these types of decisions these days are doing so in a climate of litigiousness and mounting vaccine refusal and hesitancy. Headlines questioning the safety of one vaccine threaten to fuel rejection of others. The government of the Philippines, where Dengvaxia has been given to more than 800,000 children, has threatened legal action against its manufacturer, Sanofi Pasteur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public has a whole new understanding of science, data, facts, and fake news,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy. “We’ve surely had an anti-science movement well before the current situation, but it’s never been as acute.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the issue of who gets vaccinated. Most of these products are designed to protect children, who hold a special position in discussions of the ethics of medical treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ethical bar must be placed higher when it comes to kids, because they cannot make an informed decision for themselves, said Art Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University’s school of medicine. “So I think the issue is not just: Could we accept huge benefits for small risks? Because I think the answer to that is yes. But I think it’s: Can we accept huge benefits for small risks to very vulnerable children?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have that child population put knowingly at risk, it gets really hard from the ethics point of view to ignore that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And society’s tolerance of risk has changed, Caplan argued, pointing to the so-called Cutter incident to make his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1955, it was discovered that children had been mistakenly injected with polio vaccine that contained live viruses. The process by which the viruses in the vaccine were supposed to be inactivated — killed — hadn’t worked. Fifty-one children in the U.S. were paralyzed and five died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the 1950s, polio was an enormous threat. Parents lived in fear their children would end up in an iron lung. Polio vaccination resumed. The company that made the vaccine, Cutter Laboratories, didn’t even go out of business. If a similar incident were to happen today, Caplan said, “it would have shut everything down forever.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to the case of RotaShield, the first vaccine licensed to protect against rotavirus infection. These common viruses cause devastating bouts of diarrhea in young children, who can end up in the hospital as a result. Every year some children died of these infections in the U.S., but rotaviruses did more damage in the developing world, where stricken kids didn’t have easy access to hospital care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RotaShield was approved in the U.S. in 1998. A year later, Wyeth Laboratories withdrew it from the market after studies showed babies who got it were at greater risk of developing intussusception, a type of bowel blockage that can kill if it isn’t corrected in time. 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