mefordis
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- Jun 23, 2006
Well seeing as many of these parents already send their kids to private schools, which are often the "ground zero" for many outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases in that state, I think the impact to public schools will be minimal at worst.
It's also false to say that cases in vaccine courts are extremely hard to win. It's streamlined in the cases where a patient has suffered a known "schedule" injury for problems known to be associated with a particular vaccine. Where it gets "difficult" is in cases where there is not a demonstrable connection and parents just "know" it was the vaccine at fault.
As for the costs of the vaccine injury compensation program, it is funded by a surcharge to the cost of vaccines ($0.75 per dose) and not "taxpayer dollars".
The CA law, SB277 requires all students of public AND private schools to be fully compliant on vaccines, so there will be nowhere to go except homeschool for the antivaxxers. ALL schools and daycare. Also teachers are next - all teachers will have to be up to date on vaccines to teach in all schools (there is a bill not yet voted on) and they should.
It doesn't make any sense to enforce compliance with school children to be up to date on their vaccines but not the teachers. Does anyone disagree with that?