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PA Offers Vaccination Exemptions to Students
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Pennsylvania allows philosophical exemptions to students requiring vaccines.
Pennsylvania allows philosophical exemptions to students requiring vaccines. How often does that happen and what are the risks?
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PA Offers Vaccination Exemptions to Students
Clip: Season 2018 | 5m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Pennsylvania allows philosophical exemptions to students requiring vaccines. How often does that happen and what are the risks?
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>>> I REMEMBER ONE OF THE THINGS WAS ASKING ME TO LIFT MY HEAD OFF OF THE PILLOW AND I COULDN'T DO IT.
I COULDN'T LIFT MY HEAD.
THAT WAS PART OF THE DIAGNOSIS OF POLIO AND THEN I REMEMBER MY FATHER CARRYING ME INTO THE HOSPITAL, INTO THE ISOLATION HOSPITAL, AT THE LOCAL ST.
MARY'S HOSPITAL AND BEING LEFT THERE AND BEING PUT IN A CRIB.
I REMEMBER CRYING.
MY PARENTS LEFT.
THEY COULDN'T STAY.
I REALLY HADN'T BEEN LEFT BEHIND -- ALONE BEFORE AND HERE I WAS PUT IN ISOLATION WITH STRANGE PEOPLE IN WHITE CLOTHES.
THAT WAS PRETTY TRAUMATIC.>> WHERE THEY OSTRACIZED FROM THE COMMUNITY IF THERE WAS A HOUSE THAT WAS NOTED TO HAVE POLIO?
>> YES.
MY MOTHER TELLS ABOUT WALKING MY SISTER WHO WAS A YEAR YOUNGER WHEN I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL AND PEOPLE PULLING HER.
KIDS INTO THE HOUSE AS THEY WALKED DOWN THE STREET EXPECT PENNSYLVANIA AS ONE OF 16 STATES THAT PERMITS FAMILIES TO EXERCISE STATE-MANDATED VACCINES.
CHILDREN WERE -- 35 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO CONTRACT MEASLES AND SIX TIMES MORE LIKELY TO CONTRACT PERTUSSIS.
THESE KIDS POSE A RISK TO COMMUNITIES HEALTH.>> PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE VEXES >> SEEMED HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
WHEN THEY WERE FIRST INTRODUCED FOR POLIO OR MEASLES MUMPS, EVERYBODY KNEW EVERYBODY WHO HAD HAD THE DISEASED AND HAD BEEN DAMAGED OR DISABLED WERE DIED.
I THINK THE SUCCESS OF THE VACCINE OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS HAS MEANT THAT PARENTS AND OTHERS DON'T SEE PEOPLE WITH THESE DISEASES SO THEY DON'T SEE HOW DANGEROUS THE DISEASES ARE.>> THE 65,542 PENNSYLVANIA STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE REGION 639 CLAIMED A PHILOSOPHICAL EXEMPTION.>> SOME OF THESE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES WHEN IT -- HAVE NOT SEEN AROUND IN A LONG TIME.
THESE ARE VERY DANGEROUS DISEASES IS -- AND LEAVE IMPAIRMENTS.>> AS WE TRAVELED OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY, I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING IN AFRICA PICK IT IS AMAZING HOW MUCH THEY WANTED TO BE VACCINATED BECAUSE THEY RECOGNIZE AND SEE THE DISEASES AND THE DANGER AND THEY TAINT -- DEADLINESS OF THE BUT THEY WILL COME AND STAND FOR HOURS FOR THE CLINIC TO UP IT TO GET THEIR KID THE VACCINE PICK >> COMMUNITY IMMUNITY IS A CRITICAL COMPONENT TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
THE MORE PEOPLE WHO RECEIVED THE VACCINE, THE LESS DISEASE CAN SPREAD.>> CHRONIC MEDICAL CONDITIONS CANNOT BE VACCINATED.
THEY COUNT ON OTHERS TO BE VACCINATED TO DECREASE THE PREVALENCE OF THE ILLNESS.
THE LESS PEOPLE THAT ARE VACCINATED KEEPS EVERYONE HEALTHY SO EVERYONE CAN BE AT SCHOOL AND PARENTS CAN BE AT WORK AND IT IS A WIN FOR EVERYONE.>> IN RECENT YEARS PARENTS HESITATED TO VACCINATE THEIR KIDS SPURRED BY AN ARTICLE LINKING THE MEASLES TO AUTISM.
ONE AUTHOR SAID THEY SCARE WAS BASED ON A DELIBERATE FRAUD.>> FEAR IS A BIG DRIVER BEHIND WHY PEOPLE CHOOSE NOT TO VACCINATE AND TRUTHFULLY A LOT OF TIMES IT IS EMOTIONAL FOR PEOPLE AND NOT FACTUAL BECAUSE ASSIGNED TICKET -- THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE IS THEY DON'T CAUSE AUTISM AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THE NUMBERS THAT IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO VACCINATE AND NOT TO VACCINATE.>> PEOPLE HAVE THE CONCERN ABOUT VACCINES CAUSING DIFFERENT TYPES OF OTHER DISEASES THAT IMPACT THE CHILDREN.
RESEARCH HAS FOUND THAT NOT TO BE TRUE PICKED THAT IS NOT THE CASE THAT THE VACCINES ARE SAFE.>> WE ARE DOING THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE A PASSION FOR CHILDREN AND CHILDREN'S HEALTH.
WE BELIEVE PEOPLE THAT MAKE THE VACCINE HAVE THAT SAME PASSION AND IT IS WHAT IS BEST.>> IS THERE ANYTHING PARENTS CAN DO TO PROTECT CHILDREN IF THEY OUGHT NOT TO GET THEM VACCINATED?
OR IS IT BASICALLY IF YOU DON'T VACCINATE, YOU ARE ROLLING THE DICE.>> YOU ARE ROLLING THE DICE.
ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO ANY KIND OF TRAVELING.
THERE ARE OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE THE DISEASES ARE STILL PREVALENT.
YOU GO AROUND THE CDC WEBSITE.
IT HAS RECOMMENDATIONS AGAINST GETTING VACCINATED AGAINST VARIOUS DISEASES.
WE ARE ONLY A PLANE FLIGHT AWAY FROM A LOT OF PLACES THE DISEASES CAN BE BROUGHT IN FROM PEOPLE WHO CONTRACTED OVERSEAS OR GETTING ON AN AIRPLANE AND 24 HOURS LATER LAND IN DISNEY'S LAND OR ALLENTOWN AND YOU ARE EXPOSING YOUR CHILD TO A LIFELONG RISK OF THE DISEASE.>> AND ALLENTOWN AND BETHLEHEM PENNSYLVANIA I AM CHLOE NOVELL.
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