A week before measles outbreak, fewer than half of CPS students without stable housing were fully immunized – Chicago Tribune/MSN

School registration should go hand in hand with facilitating access to immunizations, said Dr. Olusimbo Ige, Chicago Department of Public Health commissioner. State law typically requires all students to receive MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) immunizations, unless a parent or guardian submits either proof that the child previously contracted measles or a medical or religious exemption. Fewer than 1% of students had a religious or medical exemption as of November, CPS said.
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Old Joe
2 years ago

When Old Joe was a kid you had to prove that your kid was vaccinated be he’d be enrolled. What happened?

Daskoterzar
2 years ago
Reply to  Old Joe

Yeah, that was way too logical. Too much normal – common sense. Some one must have determined that the vaccine was racist or something.

debtsor
2 years ago
Reply to  Daskoterzar

What happened is that foreign countries don’t vaccinate like we do.

sue
2 years ago
Reply to  debtsor

HENCE……..DISEASE RUN RAPID

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