We need to protect the most vulnerable: babies, people with cancer, transplant recipients, and children for whom the vaccine does not confer immunity.
In 2000, the United States eliminated measles from our country, a disease that killed 500 people a year before vaccination. Measles could still be caught in another country by an unvaccinated person and brought back home, but vaccination rates were high enough in most communities to prevent further spread of the disease.
In 2014, a measles outbreak began in Disneyland and spread across California and the country mainly by unvaccinated children. Parents were worried about the safety of their babies who were too young to be vaccinated, and their school children who had cancer or transplants, who could not protected by vaccination.
In 2015, Senator Ben Allen and I authored legislation to abolish all non-medical exemptions to legally required vaccines for school enrollment. The law was a success: vaccination rates rose above 95 percent for each entering kindergarten class since implementation, thereby restoring community immunity.By law, children for whom a vaccine is ineffective or unsafe would receive a medical exemption for school from their physician, which is estimated to be less than one percent of children.
Low vaccination rates are endangering the health and safety of children. This year, the State of Washington and Rockland County, New York have declared emergencies to combat measles outbreaks affecting hundreds of people. In California, unvaccinated travelers have brought measles to the Golden State including an outbreak where two unvaccinated children with suspect medical exemptions were infected.
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