Will our immunized children start catching diseases because of exemptors?
No. Immunized children are protected, period. In fact, that is the whole reason for vaccinating: to prevent your child from catching a disease from other people (whether they are vaccinated or not vaccinated). If vaccines work, you have nothing to fear from other people. If the vaccines don’t work, forcing other people to vaccinate won’t help to protect themselves or your child. 3. Will our immunocompromised children, who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons, start catching diseases because of exemptors? No. For the few children who are not vaccinated for medical reasons, it is said that herd immunity provides an indirect protection of unvaccinated children by making it difficult for the disease to spread. As discussed above, herd immunity has never been lost in 48 other states because of exemptions. On the other hand, children who were recently vaccinated with live virus vaccines are a very real danger to immuno- compromised children. Live virus vaccines include the MMR, chickenpo
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