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Trump vows to defund schools requiring vaccines for students if he’s reelected
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 25, 2024 12:05pm |
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| Category | Rule Change |
| Author | Laura Barrón-López, Jackson Hudgins |
| News Date | Monday, June 24, 2024 11:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | On the campaign trail, Donald Trump again vowed to shut down the Education Department and endorsed a Louisiana law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools. He has also pledged to cut funding to schools with vaccine requirements. Laura Barrón-López discussed that with Dr. Paul Offitt, a pediatrician and a professor of vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Paul Offit, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Well, we eliminated measles in this country by the year 2000. The reason was school vaccine mandates and the enforcement of school vaccine mandates.
Prior to that, certainly prior to a vaccine, measles would cause 48,000 hospitalizations and 500 deaths a year. But we eliminated measles because of that. Now what's happened, and I think in large part because of the COVID vaccine mandates, there's been enormous pushback against school vaccine mandates, so much so that we have had more than 300 cases of measles in the last few years. |
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