Medical exemptions to school vaccine mandates soar in California as SB 277 makes personal belief exemptions unavailable

California's new law that eliminates personal belief exemptions has been a success, increasing vaccine uptake after just one year. That isn't to say that there aren't problems. One potential problem is the increasing number of medical exemptions, likely fueled by doctors willing to write letters of support for them based on reasons that are not science-based.

Source: Respectful Insolence - August 18, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Quackery Bob Sears medical exemption personal belief exemption SB 277 vaccines Source Type: blogs