Who knew? Tightening requirements for waivers for school vaccines increases vaccine uptake

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2. The 'do what's easiest' factor had never occured to me.

Parents have to visit their local health department for the counseling. It’s a creative modification to a strategy designed to make obtaining a PBE at least as difficult as getting one’s children vaccinated. Indeed, part of the problem in Michigan, as in California, is that it’s been easier to obtain a PBE by simply signing a form and sending it to a child’s school than it is to actually get that child vaccinated according to the CDC schedule, or at least according to the requirements of the state school vaccine mandate.

I've always been a bit surprised by the number of parents (based on non-vaccinated children) who apparently actively opposed vaccines. Honestly, it makes more sense to me that a fair number are just unwilling to spend the time to take the kids in if they can just sign a paper instead.