The NPS email cited the Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health (MCMCH), which said Michigan is one of 20 states that allow parents to waive school vaccinations for reasons other than medical necessity or religious beliefs and has the fourth highest rate of vaccination exemptions. Michigan is also seeing increasing numbers of vaccine-preventable diseases reported, according to MCMCH. Currently the state allows counties to implement their own process for obtaining a waiver--ten counties already require an educational session about vaccines before parents can obtain a waiver. In addition to creating the consistent standard of informed consent for those seeing vaccine waivers, MCMCH said the rules clarify current practice that allows the local public health officer to exclude any children who are not vaccinated from school and instructional time when an outbreak occurs.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:10:39 +0000