A bunch of headlines that are links to the original article:
Measles update: 51 cases of measles confirmed, 13 suspected in Clark County
Clark County, WA Dept. of Public Health
Measles Cases Mount In Pacific Northwest Outbreak
Washington lawmakers weigh vaccine bill amid outbreak
The bill, HB 1638, would remove parents' ability to claim a personal or philosophical exemption to opt their school-age children out of the MMR vaccines.
And finally (some of the article excerpted) from The Washington Post:
Washington measles outbreak draws crowd to hearing on vaccine law
Anti-vaccine activists packed a public hearing Friday to oppose a bill that would make it harder for families to opt out of vaccination requirements for measles, mumps and rubella amid the state’s worst measles outbreak in more than two decades.
An estimated 700 people, most of them opposed to stricter requirements, lined up before dawn in the cold, toting strollers and hand-lettered signs, to sit in the hearing, which was so crowded that staff opened up additional rooms to accommodate the crowd. Many gathered outside afterward for a rally.
Anti-vaccine activists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine conspiracy theorist, claimed that health officials are covering up vaccine dangers. Some said their children had been injured or sickened by immunizations. One falsely said the majority of people diagnosed with measles have been vaccinated.
When the Washington state health secretary, John Wiesman, debunked those claims, some members of the audience murmured in disapproval.
Those 700 people should be convicted of child abuse. They are delusional in their willful stupidity.
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