"Donald Trump vowed at a rally Tuesday that if reelected, he’ll cut funding to every school with a vaccine mandate ― even though all 50 states have such laws on the books.
If he followed through on that, no school in the United States would receive federal funding."
"All 50 states and Washington, D.C., have laws requiring specific vaccines for students, including measles, rubella, chickenpox, tetanus, pertussis and polio. Exemptions to the rule vary by state, with California, New York and a handful of other states maintaining the strictest mandates.
Public health experts credit those vaccine requirements with eradicating diseases that once killed thousands of people a year."
"Polio, a disease that infected, paralyzed or killed nearly 60,000 American children in 1952 alone, has been completely wiped out in the U.S. thanks to mass vaccination programs."
@Christo I, too, remember that period. I was born in 1950 and children of my generation were still getting polio when I was small. I know a woman nearly my age who had polio and has been crippled all her life as a result. I remember being vaccinated in school and remember how overjoyed parents were that a vaccine against polio had been developed. I never heard a peep as I grew up about parents refusing to vaccinate their children against communicable diseases.