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Childhood vaccines are safe and effective according to current medical evidence, an Ontario court has ruled in a dispute between separated spouses over whether to vaccinate their two children.
The ruling reverses a controversial 2018 decision of an arbitrator that it was in the best interests of the children in the case not to be vaccinated. That decision brought an unusual intervention in Superior Court from Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health, Eileen de Villa, who argued that vaccination was in the children’s best interests.