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Bills Banning Most Vaccine Exemptions Fail in Northwest

Bills Banning Most Vaccine Exemptions Fail in Northwest

Mar 11, 2015 |

ABCNews.com SALEM, Ore. - Mar 11, 2015 By SHEILA V KUMAR and RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press Legislative efforts to increase pressure on parents to get their kids vaccinated failed in Oregon and Washington state Wednesday amid stiff opposition as a handful of other...

Oregon senator to propose new school vaccine policy

Oregon senator to propose new school vaccine policy

Mar 11, 2015 |

StatesmanJournal.com March 11, 2015 By Saerom Yoo Oregon legislators are backing off a proposal that would have made it tougher for school children to opt out of vaccinations. Instead, Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward said Wednesday she will propose a different policy...

Senator drops Oregon vaccine mandate bill

Senator drops Oregon vaccine mandate bill

Mar 11, 2015 | ,

Statesman Journal March 11, 2015 By Saerom Yoo Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, a family physician who led the charge for strengthening Oregon's school immunization law, will no longer pursue the legislation, a staffer said today. Senate Bill 442, which has had one...

What school immunization rates actually mean

What school immunization rates actually mean

Mar 9, 2015 |

Statesman Journal by Saerom Yoo March 9, 2015 During Oregon’s debate on whether all school and daycare children should be required to be fully vaccinated unless they have a medical exemption, I have used Oregon’s statewide kindergarten nonmedical exemption rate a lot....