Texas lawmakers have passed a bill that would make it easier for parents to opt out of vaccinating their children, despite the current measles outbreak in West Texas. May 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM RFK Jr. cuts COVID-19 vaccine recommendation for healthy kids, pregnant women ABC News' Dr. Darien Sutton discusses the move which could alter ...
"All of my clients continue to be committed to fighting this unjust policy," Woodfill said in a statement. "What is shocking is that many of my clients were on the front line treating COVID-positive patients at Texas Methodist Hospital during the height of the pandemic. As a result, many...
The purpose of this study was to describe the level of vaccine hesitancy and hesitant adoption among nursing students in the state of Texas. We used a convenient, opt-in, online survey of nursing students conducted between mid-April and mid-June 2022. The survey was distributed to all pre-...
has its own vaccine requirements to attend public school. Below, find which vaccines are mandated for public school kindergarten entry as of Aug. 16, 2021. At the bottom of the page, find a link for each state’s requirements. On Oct. 20, 2022, the CDC voted to add the coronavirus vac...
pro-vaccine policies—more anti-vaccine legislation than was introduced combined in the years since nonmedical exemptions became available in the state in 2003. Legislators' aims included limiting the scope of policies set byhealth care professionalsand employers and removing school vaccine requirements....
growing number of parents have been skipping the shots for their kids. The share of children exempted from vaccine requirements has reached an all-time high, and just 92.7% of kindergartners got their required shots in 2023. That's well below the 95% coverage level that keeps diseases at ...
Several states have now enacted laws that ban certain requirements – such as so-called ‘vaccine passports’ – based on COVID-19 inoculation status.
The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council said Tuesday that North Texas hospitals, which face both orders, are now reviewing them, but haven't changed their vaccine requirements. Oct 12, 2021 'Federal Action Supersedes Any State Mandate' Southwest Airlines To Continue Employee Vaccine Mandate Dalla...
(APIC) released an open letter to state legislators urging them to strengthen vaccine requirements to prevent further measles outbreaks. A measles-related death has shaken the nation. A child in Lubbock, Texas, died from a preventable disease that was eliminated in the US 25 years ago....
polio and whooping cough. Children must receive the vaccines before enrolling in kindergarten and are required to receive others, such as the meningococcal vaccine, in later grades. If parents want to opt out of the vaccine requirements through a conscientious exemption,...