Gov. Jim Justice is facing a tight deadline to sign bills that were approved in the 2024 legislative session. Justice has until midnight on March 27, 2024, to finish signing bills, with several key pieces of legislation hanging in the balance.
CDC data shows the childhood vaccine exemption rate reached an all-time high. States in the West, including Utah and Idaho, have the highest exemption rate for kindergarten immunizations.
A new CDC report finds that routine childhood vaccination exemptions reached an all-time high, leaving hundreds of thousands of kids at risk of preventable diseases.
Mandating the vaccine. with fox business live on capitol hill. so vaccine mandates are still in effect in some colleges? they are, john. 60 colleges in the u.s. still have a vaccine mandate according to the anti-mandate group no college mandates that tracks these things. one of those is rutgers, the state university in new jersey. that university has come understood fire recently for a very strict vaccine mandate where they basically told students if you don t want to get a covid vaccine and you are not able to get a vaccine exemption that we grant, your option is to disenroll. we reached out to rutgers to see if that is still the policy, that was the case during the pandemic. we have not heard back. rutgers detailed what would happen if a student decided not to get the covid vaccine. they said students that do not