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The CT Senate should act now to remove non-medical vaccine exemptions. Last week, the Connecticut House of Representatives advanced legislation to eliminate non-medical exemptions from school-entry immunizations, a timely and important step towards protecting our children and families from vaccine-preventable illnesses. The Senate should move decisively to do the same. Our professional society, the American College of Physicians (ACP), established national policy in 2015 recommending that vaccine medical exemptions be the only type allowed under state laws. High immunization rates are necessary to safeguard infants and children for whom vaccines may be truly unsafe, such as those with an allergy to a vaccine component or with a primary or acquired immune disorder, for example related to cancer treatment. These children did not choose their illness or condition; sending them to school with voluntarily unvaccinated students risks exposing them to a life-threatening, vaccine-preventab

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