Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Virginia Immunization Information System Regulations [12 VAC 5 ‑ 115]
Action Establishment of the Virginia Immunization Information System
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 1/18/2013
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12/1/12  8:01 am
Commenter: Stephen

Immunizations required for school attendance.
 

There are substantial numbers of students attending schools that are at risk for contacting diseases for which there are immunizations available.  These students have received the immunization treatments but remain unprotected.   In light of the fact that there is no concern for these students attending school, why then is there so much effort placed on forcing a few students to get immunized whose parents do not want them immunized?  If they were not immunized, they would be no more at risk than the many children that are not protected by the immunizations.   "Requiring" immunizations and then quietly, through medical records privacy, allowing those that object  to attend (based on religous or health issues or what ever)  whould seem reasonable.   The purely fear tactics used over this issue to get a public out cry for forced immunizations, while there is no concern for exposure to those uneffected after receiving immunizations, is about government control rather than about health concerns.

CommentID: 24565