Edhat StaffSource: Santa Barbara County Public Health Department
With students preparing to head back to school, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department urges parents and guardians to check the vaccine records of their children. “Physicians and schools do an excellent job working with families to make sure children get the immunizations they need before they enter school,” said Dr. Charity Dean, Health Officer for the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department. “Making sure that children receive their immunizations is one of the most important things parents and guardians can do to ensure their children’s health―as well as the health of friends, classmates, and others in the community.”
California law requires students to receive certain immunizations in order to attend public and private elementary and secondary schools as well as licensed child care centers. Schools and licensed child care centers are required to enforce immunization requirements, maintain immunization records of all children enrolled, and report student immunization status to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
Last April, CDPH reported encouraging results from the annual immunization assessment of children attending kindergarten in Santa Barbara County in the 2016-17 school year. The report found that vaccination rates are at record levels: compared to 2015-16 results, the percentage of students attending kindergarten in Santa Barbara County during 2016-17 who had received all required vaccines rose from 94.9 percent to 96.4 percent.
To learn more about the vaccination rate of your child’s school or childcare facilty, go to the Shots for School website, and scroll down to the left bottom of the page and click on the “How many students in your school have required shots?” banner. For more information about school immunization requirements, visit the Shots for School website above, contact your child’s physician, school nurse or the Public Health Department Immunization Program at 346-8420.
More BS from the Faker.
That was a horrendously biased and flawed study that even the quacky “Translational Medicine” has disavowed:
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/08/retracted-vaccine-autism-study-republished/
Although it’s not our job to remedy your ignorance, let’s take a look at your lack of knowledge concerning the atmosphere. Do you face a headwind when you walk from the back of a bus to the front as it’s going 65 MPH down the freeway? Of course not; the air in the bus has been accelerated to the same speed as the bus. Does the Earth leave its atmosphere behind as it orbits the Sun? Do the winds always blow counter to the Earth’s rotation?
You’re also ignorant regarding the eclipse path. Watch the Moon from night to night. It travels to the *east* against the background stars in its orbit. That’s why the young crescent is close to the sunset and the full moon is opposite the Sun two weeks later. That’s also why the Moon’s shadow (umbra and penumbra) travels eastward during an eclipse.
Ignorance is curable – one just has to learn. You, however, are willfully ignorant.
Although it’s not our job to remedy your ignorance, let’s take a look at your lack of knowledge concerning the atmosphere. Do you face a headwind when you walk from the back of a bus to the front as it’s going 65 MPH down the freeway? Of course not; the air in the bus has been accelerated to the same speed as the bus. Does the Earth leave its atmosphere behind as it orbits the Sun? Do the winds always blow counter to the Earth’s rotation?
You’re also ignorant regarding the eclipse path. Watch the Moon from night to night. It travels to the *east* against the background stars in its orbit. That’s why the young crescent is close to the sunset and the full moon is opposite the Sun two weeks later. That’s also why the Moon’s shadow (umbra and penumbra) travels eastward during an eclipse.
Ignorance is curable – one just has to learn. You, however, are willfully ignorant.
Because, Mr. Science Ignorant, centuries of epidemiological data have shown that such studies would be a complete waste of time and money. Vaccines work. Facts are facts, and idle speculation by antivaxxers who can’t distinguish reality from fantasy does nothing but lead to unnecessary deaths and risk to vulnerable members of the community.