At recent public events, Donald Trump reiterated his promise to strip funding from public schools that mandate vaccines or masks. As with previous statements, he did not clarify if he was referring to COVID-19 vaccines or to all vaccines. Many online anti-vaccine advocates took his remarks to encompass any vaccine requirements for school entry.
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School vaccine requirements have increasingly become a target of vaccine opponents, which may discourage some parents from vaccinating their children. Emphasizing the importance of vaccines to protect children and communities against potentially debilitating and life-threatening diseases is recommended, as is highlighting that higher school vaccine exemption rates are linked to devastating outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. Messaging may also emphasize that decades of research show childhood vaccines to be safe and effective. Fact-Checking Source(s): Physicians & Surgeons Clinic, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
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