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Welcome to our biweekly series in partnership with CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. Every two weeks, we walk through what changed in vaccine policy and what it means for your family. We’re going to keep doing that, with a few tweaks.Think about biting into a jelly donut. The jelly shoots out …
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None of the major world religions oppose vaccines, yet thousands of Americans claim that immunizations conflict with their faith. School vaccine exemptions for religious or personal reasons are on the rise. At least five appeals that concern religious freedom and vaccines are pending before the US …
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Pennsylvania is experiencing a large measles outbreak currently totaling 731 cases, of which 117 are new within the past week. Four measles-associated deaths have been reported in the state, including two adults and two infants, all of whom were unvaccinated. Federal leaders have not encouraged MMR …
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On a Monday in late August, two weeks after the executive order on childhood vaccines, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a request for information in the Federal Register. It runs five pages and asks 18 questions, most of them about the categories themselves: what to call …
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A mother in New York State who claims to oppose vaccines because of her Catholic faith lost an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) this week—though Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have granted her application. For now, the woman’s …
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Catholic bishops in Florida are warning the state’s attorney general to respect their religious liberty when it comes to parochial schools’ approach to vaccine exemptions.Florida’s Catholic schools do not accept religious exemptions for vaccines. In a letter to Attorney General James Uthmeier, made …
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Natalya Maisheva / iStock In some cases, vaccinated people can transmit measles, finds a review and meta-analysis of 33 reports published late last week in Expert Review of Vaccines.“Measles transmissions from vaccinated cases, although relatively uncommon, must be considered in public health …
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Welcome to our biweekly series in partnership with CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. I (Izzy) have been watching a lot of John Oliver lately, and I admit that writing this week’s issue feels a bit like rattling off a talk show host’s brain-dump at the beginning of an episode. In the two weeks …
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No medical intervention is 100% safe—and that includes vaccines. While serious side effects are incredibly rare, some people do suffer injuries as a result of vaccinations. The government developed a special compensation program for anyone injured by vaccines, the Vaccine Injury Compensation …
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We took a couple of weeks off our biweekly series–in partnership with CIDRAP (the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) at the University of Minnesota–for a mix of reasons, and we’re glad to be back. In the three weeks since our last issue, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, …
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