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Panel advances bills ending religious exemption for vaccines

Panel advances bills ending religious exemption for vaccines
SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press
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A key Connecticut legislative committee on Wednesday advanced retooled legislation that scraps a long-standing state religious exemption that many parents have been using over the past decade to avoid having their children vaccinated, while still enabling them to attend public school.
The latest version includes a new provision requiring health insurance companies to cover the cost of at least a 20-minute consultation between the health care provider and the parent or guardian. There's also language that proponents said creates a clearer path for medical exemptions, which will remain available, including the creation of a new medical exemption certificate that physicians would fill out.

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Opponents of mandatory vaccinations for children dominate hearing

Opponents of mandatory vaccinations for public school dominate hearing
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School buses are parked in neat rows at the Trumbull school bus depot at 81 Spring Hill Road in Trumbull, Conn. on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.Brian A. Pounds/Hearst Connecticut Media
Dozens of parents on Tuesday threatened to move out of the state — and at least one suggested legal action — if the General Assembly makes them vaccinate their kids to attend public and private school.
The hearing that was set to last 24 hours, until Wednesday morning, was over lawmakers’ attempt to severely limit exemptions to the mandatory vaccination of school children for measles, mumps, rubella and other diseases, ending religious objections.

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Nearly 2,000 try to testify online about religious exemption

Nearly 2,000 members of the public were signed up to testify at Tuesday's unprecedented...

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65 and older can begin making vaccine appointments Thursday

65 and older can begin making vaccine appointments Thursday
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Connecticut mulling whether medical assistants can give shot

Roughly 350,000 Connecticut residents age 65 and older can officially begin signing up...

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