Disconnects between news framing and parental discourse concerning the state-mandated HPV vaccine: implications for dialogic health communication and healt... In 2007, Virginia became the first state in the US to mandate the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. In 2009, the mandate required that par...
Washington is among 17 states, including Oregon, that allow some type of non-medical exemption for vaccines for "personal, moral or other beliefs," according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Legislation introduced in Washington state in 2015 that would have removed the personal or...
While the Senate had first sought a bill that would have removed the philosophical exemption for all required childhood vaccines, both chambers ultimately agreed to move forward with the House bill that focused only on the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine — also known as MMR. Parents opposed to ...
After delaying a vote on the issue twice, Seattle Public Schools board members are now urging the state Department of Health to begin a review to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of immunizations required to attend school. During Wednesday’s regular ...
And because the University is mandating that all students receive vaccines before arriving on campus, it is, for the most part, guaranteed that the majority of us will be vaccinated. In a lighter piece of news, D.C.’s streatery program has been extended . In May of last year, Bowser...
"The vaccines are working as they were expected to do," Nesbitt said. "They continue to preventsevere illness, hospitalization and death." Bowser said she didn't expect the mask mandate to be too much of a hardship for D.C. residents, whom she credited with remaining generally cautious eve...
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Only AFTER the phone interview could I submit the required documentation of my marriage certificate, even though I had it with me at the time I was there. What inefficiency! I was so angry at having to waste so much time all for nothing. I read 5 books out of my goal of 52 for ...
Trump has proposed imposing up to a 20 percent tariff on all goods entering the U.S. and a 60 percent tariff on all imports from China. He also hasmuch of the legal authority requiredto make good on his plans. But countries targeted by Trump’s broad tariffs, such as Chi...
Department of State, the U.S. needs to keep up with those changes, while still maintaining the leadership role that has characterized it since World War II. During a talk organized by the Transnational Challenges and Emerging Nations Dialogue, at the School of International Service on November ...