The vaccine fight: A mother’s battle against anti-vaxxers in California

Brooke Balck, who takes immunosuppressants, cannot have vaccines, making her especially vulnerable to the spread of infectious diseases like measles. Her mother took the fight for her daughter's health to the California legislature. On September 9, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill tightening medical exemptions for children attending schools. California’s bill, SB 276, creates a standardized medical exemption request form to be approved by the state’s public health officer. It also authorizes the health department to review requests for medical exemptions at schools where less than 95 percent of students are vaccinated, at schools that do not report their vaccination rates and from doctors who have written five or more waivers in a given year. Read moreSubscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube