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New York’s newly strengthened vaccine mandate protects all of us | Opinion

New York State took an important step to increase those numbers by repealing a religious exception to its vaccine mandate for schoolchildren. While vaccine skeptics protested stridently, the action will help to protect everyone.

A sign advertising free measles vaccines is displayed at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., on March 27, 2019. The county in New York City's northern suburbs declared a state of emergency over a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since last fall, hoping a ban against unvaccinated children in public places wakes their parents to the seriousness of the problem.
A sign advertising free measles vaccines is displayed at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., on March 27, 2019. The county in New York City's northern suburbs declared a state of emergency over a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since last fall, hoping a ban against unvaccinated children in public places wakes their parents to the seriousness of the problem.Read moreSeth Wenig / AP