http://www.breitbart.com/california...tion-rate-as-low-as-51-in-l-a-area-day-cares/ A Los Angeles Times report released early Wednesday morning reports that many child care facilities in Los Angeles have alarmingly low vaccination rates–some reportedly as low as 51%. The report indicates that private schools have lower vaccination rates than public schools, as wealthier parents opt out of inoculation for communicable diseases like measles. The problem is not limited to Los Angeles. “Mirroring the situation at kindergartens, the analysis found that preschools in affluent areas like the Westside, southern Orange County and the South Bay tended to have lower vaccination rates,” the Times reports. The vaccination rate in privately-run facilities is a shocking 87%, and in public facilities only 90%. Some of the child care centers with the lowest rates of vaccination are located in the wealthy liberal communities of the west side of Los Angeles. One Santa Monica day care center had a reported rate of 51%, though it has recently risen to 76%. A father of a two-year-old from the beachfront community of Venice, who was shocked at the 51% figure, is quoted by the Times as saying: “Santa Monica has so many great things going for it, and this is really a black eye for the community….It has a lot of progressive ideas, most of which I support. But not vaccinating your children is not progressive.”
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/02/04/compton-vaccination-rate-93-80-beverly-hills-78-33/ Elementary schools in the inner-city Los Angeles neighborhood of Compton have a far higher vaccination rate against diseases like measles than schools in wealthy Beverly Hills, state data show. The rate in Compton is 93.80%, near the 2013-14 national median of 94.7%, with one school at 100%. In Beverly Hills elementary schools, the rate is a mere 78.33%, creating the conditions for an outbreak. The level in Beverly Hills falls well below “herd immunity“–the minimum level, usually 90-95%, past which an entire population may be considered immune from a disease even if a few individuals are not themselves immunized. The disparity in data follows a trend across the state, where the wealthiest communities are among those with the lowest rates of immunization. One expert who has studied the problem has joked that the way to find under-vaccinated areas is to “take a map and put a pin wherever there’s a Whole Foods.” Some poor communities are also highly under-immunized. Though the mainstream media have covered the vaccination controversy as if it were a Republican problem, owing to recent comments by GOP presidential contenders, liberals are slightly more likely to resist vaccination than conservatives.
You have to hand it to the left. They create this problem, then suddenly blame it on republicans. The last thing we need is some federlsa mandate. Then it will be just like all the issue with obamacare. They will require Nuns to get HPV vaccine. The states can handle this just fine.
Disneyland measles outbreak smaller than one that hit Ohio's Amish country Alicia Chang, The Associated Press Published Wednesday, February 4, 2015 5:04PM EST LOS ANGELES -- The largest U.S. measles outbreak in recent history isn't the one that started in December at Disneyland. It happened months earlier in Ohio's Amish country, where 383 people fell ill after unvaccinated Amish missionaries travelled to the Philippines and returned with the virus. The Ohio episode drew far less attention, even though the number of cases was almost four times that of the Southern California outbreak, because it seemed to pose little threat outside close-knit religious communities. The Disneyland outbreak has already spread well beyond the theme parks that attract tens of thousands of visitors from around the globe, who could then return home with the virus. Disease investigators for weeks raced to identify measles-stricken patients, track down potential contacts and quarantine them if necessary. Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/disney...-ohio-s-amish-country-1.2221025#ixzz3Qp6mQ3xI
or for that matter, just the school system, if you don't like it, you still have the choice to not send your kid to a school with mandatory vaccinations. More local, lowest form of government possible. That is why Berkely CA can require Burger King to offer vegetarian meals. Local governments can be very progressive or very conservative. All federal employees should be required to wear black and white striped shirts, to remind them that they are nothing but referees.