PRO/EDR> Varicella update (04): USA (CA) student

Chicken Pox — United States
In January of 2016, Governor Jerry Brown passed a bill titled “SB 277”, which banned the “personal or religious belief” vaccination exemption for schools. Currently, students can be exempt from immunization if forms are submitted by a physician stating that it would be medically unsafe for the individual to be immunized. After Brown’s bill passed, the rate of medical exemptions nearly quadrupled, according to a study by the Journal of Pediatrics.
Currently, the CSU-wide immunization policy