Smallpox Cases News Today

Talking about now. l.a. police officers, nurses, refusing to get vaccinated -- and there are a lot of them -- they have a tough hill to climb because of early cases from the 20th century, but it was before we have this revolution in constitutional rights, before science gave us a lot more knowledge. i bet it will cause the court to reconsider and be tougher in scrutinizing with the governmena justification for these kind of vaccination policies. >> shannon: yeah come important to remember what s...

Government is allowed to do in the name of public health. and also the vaccine mandate in boston worked. you can see from this chart that smallpox cases in boston peaked in december of 1901. at the end of that month the health department announced the vaccine mandate, and from there cases came steadily down from their peak until the very last few cases were documented in the spring of 1903. now, it bears mentioning that bostons response to the smallpox epidemic and the supreme court ruling uphol...