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Bill to eliminate N.B.'s non-medical exemptions from school-based vaccination program is voted down

from Globe and Mail

Bill to eliminate N.B.'s non-medical exemptions from school-based vaccination program is voted down Globe and Mail New Brunswick legislators voted down a bill Thursday that would have eliminated non-medical exemptions from school-based immunization programs, a development experts fear could help fuel the anti-vaccination movement and weaken the uptake of an eventual COVID-19 shot. The bill, introduced by the provincial government last year after a large measles outbreak, would have ended the use of religious or personal-belief exemptions to the province’s mandatory vaccine program for school-aged children. READ MORE

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