Pennsylvania Proposes Much Stricter New Vaccine Rules

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By Julie Fidler

Pennsylvania’s health and education departments announced Thursday that they will propose that students must have all of their vaccines within 5 days of starting school or provide a medical certificate saying when they would receive the shots. [1]

Under current law, students have 8 months to receive all of their vaccinations as long as they receive the first dose by the time they start school. Students would still need to receive their first inoculation by the start of school under the new proposal.

Additionally, teens entering grade 12 would be required to receive a pertussis and meningitis vaccine.

“The current eight-month provisional …read more

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