Posted September 30, 2019
Welcome to NVIC’s webpage on vaccine laws. Here you will be able to access resources that will assist you in making educated vaccine decisions. For example, you can learn about the differences between vaccine requirements that govern being able to attend school or daycare and a federal vaccine recommendation. There are also resources below that will help you find out which types of vaccine exemptions are available in your state, how to protect and expand vaccine exemptions, and much more. Read more.
Get Informed on Issues Related to Vaccines
Vaccine Ingredients and Vaccine Inserts
Posted February 12, 2014
Click here to view a complete list of the ingredients in U.S. vaccines. To see the vaccine package inserts, click here.
To view a list of vaccine excipients, click here.
COVI:D-19 to Usher in First Federal Mandatory Mass Vaccinations?
Posted April 3, 2020
Until recently, the concept of mandatory and mass vaccination has been only a worrisome possibility. Vaccination laws are passed and monitored at the state level, not at the federal level. But while the country was still struggling to recover from the events of September 11, 2001, and the bioterrorism scares of smallpox and anthrax threats, the groundwork to make vaccines mandatory began to change in 2003, during President George W. Bush’s State of the Union Address. Read more.
Amish Children to be Denied an Education in New York
Posted April 3, 2020
An Amish family filed a lawsuit in October 2019 arguing that the removal of the religious exemption to vaccination mandated for school attendance violated their rights under the New York Constitution. The family had three unvaccinated children, who were shut out of a private school that enrolled only 24 students, all of whom were Amish and unvaccinated. Read more.
What We Can Learn From A Pandemic “Tabletop Exercise”?
Posted March 27, 2020
We are living in unfamiliar times. We are frightened by the highly infectious coronavirus CoV-2019 or COVID-19, and our hearts go out to those who have been directly affected. We are in a global “lockdown,” “sheltering in place,” against an invisible but potentially deadly enemy. Our world has changed rapidly and dramatically since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Read more.
The Plan to Vaccinate Every American — National Registry to Record Everyone’s Vaccination Status
Posted March 27, 2020
Today, the nationwide federally funded Electronic Health Records system captures the details of every visit you make to a doctor’s office, hospital, pharmacy, laboratory or other medical facility; every medical diagnosis you get; every drug you have been prescribed and every vaccine you accept or refuse. Read more.
What California Data Tell Us About Autism Prevalence — and Prevention
Posted March 27, 2020
The United States uses a variety of imperfect data sources to monitor autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at the national level—each providing a partial snapshot of trends for various age groups and time periods. However, many autism researchers consider the high-quality, state-level data collected by the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) to be the “most reliable long-term record of autism prevalence trends in the United States” for cases on the more severe end of the spectrum. Read more.
First Person to Test the Coronavirus Speaks Out
Posted March 27, 2020
Today, the United States has test its very first coronavirus vaccine. It went to a volunteer […], 43-year-old Jennifer Haller, who is from Seattle… that’s one of the hardest hit areas for this virus in the nation… Washington state with over 840 cases. It’s a fast moving story and she joins us… View here.
Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine to Skip Animal Testing — Test Directly on Humans
Posted March 27, 2020
Standard clinical trials of any new medicine require scientists first test the vaccine on animals (normally mice) to determine its safety and effectiveness. Only after surviving iterative tests in animal models can a candidate medicine then be tested in human trials. This step has been dispensed within the case of mRNA-1273. Read more.
The True Cost of Autism with Dr. Toby Rogers
Posted March 13, 2020
Recently Del Bigtree’s The Highwire had an interview with political economist, Dr. Toby Rogers, that should have everyone’s attention. Toby is a researcher who has looked at the science and added up the costs of autism. It seems that with April’s Autism Awareness Month coming up there is nothing to celebrate, especially when it comes to the costs to society. In short, Toby thinks the economics of autism will bury us. Read more.
