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Legislators move to delay whooping cough vaccine

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California legislators are moving to delay implementation of a new vaccine requirement aimed at stopping the spread of whooping cough.  School officials said it would have been impossible to meet a fall deadline for administering a vaccine to 3 million middle school and high school students.

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Legislators move to delay whooping cough vaccine
Jocelyn Wiener, CHCF Center for Health Reporting | July 13, 2011
Responding to panicked school districts that insist they will be unable to meet the looming whooping cough immunization deadline, state legislators are attempting to forge a last-minute change this week that will grant districts 30 extra days after classes begin to verify vaccinations of all seventh- through 12th-grade students. The state's middle and high schools face the prospect of having to certify the vaccination records of up to 3 million students, one of the largest such efforts in California history. The bill to extend the deadline, Senate Bill 614 by Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, was unanimously approved Monday by the Assembly Health Committee. Advocates expected it to be heard on the Assembly floor and then the Senate floor on Thursday.
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