Austin, Texas (AP) -Texas has been the center of the largest measles in the United States for more than 20 years, with more than 700 diseases in the state, and dozens of people in the hospital, and two children led to the deaths of two children.
However, even if the onset is slow, the legislation sent by the state lawmakers and to the Republican Governor Greg Abbott will make it easier for parents to register their children to school without vaccinations on diseases such as measles, hundred days, polio, polio and hepatitis.
The supporters already simplify the legal exemption process, allowing the family to avoid vaccines for conscience, religious beliefs or medical reasons. Instead of contacting the state health officials and waiting until you come by mail, you can download the necessary forms on the website.
The bill does not change what vaccine is needed. But critics open the door of additional onset that have potentially fatal results when they alleviate the exemption process.
Rekha Lakshmanan, the chief strategic director of the non -profit vaccination project in Texas, told the State Senator before this bill was approved, “If this bill is the law, Texas will be able to see more diseases, more death and higher health care costs.
“What happens in Texas is not a coincidence, a canary of coal mine screaming at the top of the lungs.
The exemptions on other legislation passed by the Texas House of Representatives and the preventive restrictions on the lawsuit against the vaccine manufacturers and the removal of preventive restrictions on long -term transplantation are snapshots of efforts to question or roll requirements in dozens of conservative states.
At the national level, the wave has been buoyant by being appointed as minister of the US health and human service department, one of the main anti-Basin deficiency of the United States due to the inclusion of Covid-19 Pandemic’s Robert F. Kennedy JR..
According to the most recent federal data, kindergarten vaccination rate decreased after 92.7%in 2023-24, compared to 95%before COVID-19, and the ratio of children with exemptions increased to an all-time high. And last week, the Federal Report on the Health and Health of the United States has questioned the need for vaccine obligations for school kids.
Read more: ‘The disease does not know the border’: Measles spreads to the onset in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
The National Association of Immunization Managers traces nearly 600 vaccine laws in the country in 2025, and most of them will not be considered a probbatin, according to Brent, the chief policy officer of the group.
EWIG said, “We have seen a surge in vaccine legislation during the epidemic period, which has been thinner for the last few years, and has recently been spike again in the recent federal level.
Texas measles occurred and vaccine requirements
Texas was considered removed from the United States since 2000. Texas’s outbreak began in the Menonite community of Texas Texas, which resisted the vaccine at the end of January and distrusted by government intervention, and highly infectious viruses jumped to another place with low vaccination rates.
Like many states, Texas requires children to obtain vaccines to protect them from 11 diseases to attend public, private schools and childcare centers. The main vaccination rate in 2023-24 was 93.78%for chickenpox and 95.78%for hepatitis B.
However, parents may be exempted for religious or personal reasons, or they can determine that doctors are not safe due to medical conditions.
Texas’s exemption rate has been increasing for almost 20 years and has been dramatically surge in the last five years. According to the Texas Department of Health Services, the institution received an exemption from about 153,000 students in the 2023-2024 fiscal year, and doubled the 77,000 people requested in 2019 from 136,000 last year.
Texas’s Vaccine Rollback
The legislation on vaccine exemption documents allows parents to download them with computers or smartphones so that they can get the required form more easily. The current system, in which parents ask the state officials to send a copy of paper by home, can sometimes take a few weeks. Western foods must be entered school and students must still be notarized before they register.
Advocates say that this change will help parents conduct bureaucracy and enroll their children faster.
“This bill is not about government efficiency and government efficiency and to protect children in school.
Critics argue that if you simplify the exemption process, children who are not vaccinated will be registered in the school and cannot be at risk of other children and family health.
Lakshmanan said, “For many years, Texas has balanced parental rights, public health and safety.” This bill is more than just a form. We can support parents without being dangerous to other families. “
Still waiting for the Senate’s vote is a bill that can be sued if the vaccine manufacturer advertises in Texas if the vaccine is injured. This bill was opposed by the Texas manufacturer association.
The author of the bill is the first CEO of Shelley Luther, who was briefly imprisoned for opening Dallas Salon in violation of the Governor’s emergency order during the infectious diseases in 2020. Abbott quickly weakened the execution of the Corona virus protection, and the court ordered her to release.
