Citing coronavirus, Mills urges voters to uphold Maine's new vaccine law

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https://www.pressherald.com/2020/01/31/mills-uses-radio-address-to-urge-voters-to-uphold-maines-new-vaccine-law/

AUGUSTA — Pointing to the international coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Janet Mills is urging voters to reject a citizens’ veto effort that seeks to overturn a new law that eliminates all non-medical exemptions to vaccinations for Maine schoolchildren.

In the text of her weekly radio address released Friday, Mills urged a “no” vote on Question 1, which will go to voters during the statewide presidential primary election in March.

“A little more than a month ago, the residents of a city in central China began getting terribly sick with a virus that no one had seen before,” Mills said. “As that virus spread, one of the first things that public health officials did was begin to work on a vaccine because vaccines save lives.”

On Thursday, the United Nation’s World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global emergency after it had spread from China to more than a dozen countries and the number of cases had spiked more than tenfold in a week.

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