{"id":20639,"date":"2019-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/23\/california-bill-to-tighten-vaccine-exemptions-moves-forward\/"},"modified":"2019-05-24T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:09:44","slug":"california-bill-to-tighten-vaccine-exemptions-moves-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/23\/california-bill-to-tighten-vaccine-exemptions-moves-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"California Bill to Tighten Vaccine Exemptions Moves Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>State public health officials would have the authority to decide which children qualify for medical exemptions<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, May 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A bill that would tighten control over vaccination exemptions for children in California was sent by state senators to the Assembly on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the measure, state public health officials, not local doctors, would have the authority to decide which children qualify for medical vaccination exemptions before attending school, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The change is needed because some &#8220;unscrupulous physicians&#8221; have been selling medical immunization exemptions since the state ended nonmedical exemptions in 2016, according to Democratic Sen. Richard Pan of Sacramento, who introduced the proposal. &#8220;This is about keeping our community safe,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is facing the highest number of measles cases in decades, with 880 cases reported so far, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/d5b0d1c5520447c38e11521a9e9f3310\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State public health officials would have the authority to decide which children qualify for medical exemptions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-20639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}