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February 13, 2024

Lawmakers Once Again Consider Lifting Some of West Virginia’s Childhood Vaccine Requirements

Mountain State Spotlight, Beckley Register-Herald – The lack of a disease or a death is a success that’s hard to celebrate, even though it provides people with the health to live life freely. West Virginia’s high childhood vaccination rate is one of these successes. 

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The state, unlike 45 others, requires children in schools to be vaccinated and does not allow for ideological exemptions. 

During an October interim meeting, the state’s epidemiologist, Shannon McBee, told a committee of lawmakers that the high immunization rate is a major reason why West Virginia hasn’t had many cases of infectious diseases like measles. But during that same meeting, delegates and state senators expressed skepticism about West Virginia’s childhood vaccine laws. 

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