By Dorit Reiss On June 13, 2019 New York repealed the religious exemption from its school immunization mandates. While the actual repeal went fast – the bill passed the Assembly health committee, the Assembly floor, the Senate floor and the Governor’s office on the same day – the bill has been in the process since…
By Dorit Reiss Like Rockland county, New York City has been combatting a large measles outbreak for several months. As of April 9, 285 people were sick with measles. 246 were children, 21 were hospitalized, and five ended in the intensive care unit. New York City has taken a number of steps to combat the…
The ban on unvaccinated kids in public spaces seems like a drastic step, but it is the culmination of extensive efforts to stem a large outbreak created by anti-vaccine misinformation.
Social media may play an outsize role in the evolution of the anti-vaxxer movement. But now the platforms are trying to wrest control over the spread of misinformation.
By Dorit Reiss The Second Appellate District’s Court of Appeal upheld the California law that removed California’s Personal Belief Exemption (PBE) from school immunization requirements earlier this month. The decision is a strong endorsement of immunization mandates and is binding on all state courts until another appellate decision is handed down, or the Supreme Court…
By Dorit Reiss New York’s Court of Appeals reversed an Appellate Division decision and reinstated New York City’s influenza mandate for city daycares in Garcia v. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in June. Applying the same criteria the court used in 2014 to overturn the city’s controversial Soda Cap, the court…
By Nicholas J. Diamond On June 28, the State of New York Court of Appeals upheld a New York City Board of Health requirement that children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years old attending city-regulated child care or school-based programs receive flu vaccinations. While New York City is no stranger to progressive public…
By Dorit Reiss, Stanley A. Plotkin, Paul A. Offit A new tactic has emerged in a few recent family law vaccination cases: using arguments created by the anti-vaccine movement. Lack of familiarity with anti-vaccine claims can trip up even the most qualified expert. But a new resource library at the Vaccine Education Center at the…
The Conduct of Clinical Trials of Treatments during Public Health Emergencies: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium February 9, 2018, 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010 Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA In the past several years, the United States has struggled to respond to viral outbreaks, such as Ebola and Zika. There…
The Conduct of Clinical Trials of Treatments during Public Health Emergencies: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium February 9, 2018, 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010 Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA In the past several years, the United States has struggled to respond to viral outbreaks, such as Ebola and Zika. There…
