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Less than 5 years after SB 277 was signed into law and removed personal belief vaccination exemptions for children in public schools, the number of vaccinated children in California has skyrocketed.

A recently released study in the the medical journal PLOS Medicine has found that measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines have seen a 3.3% increase in California, a similar declination of exemptions, and no major outbreak of diseases like the measles since the Disneyland case in 2014 the very incident that sparked passage of SB 277.

Vaccination rates have also shot up from 92.8% in 2015 to 95% in 2017.

Child vaccinations also saw the largest climb in high-risk counties, where vaccination rates went up nearly 10%.

This is really good news for California, said Dr. Richard Nguyen, a pediatrician. There had been an uptick of parents refusing to vaccinate their kids for all sorts of reasons, but now its getting back to normal.

Less kids are getting sick, and Ive actually been getting apologies from parents who had formerly cursed me out over having to be forced to vaccinate their kids because they believed the myth that they can cause autism or weaken them in some way. I actually got a voicemail last week from a mother of a child I do checkups on who said she was sorry for not believing me and other doctors after her daughter had a recent measles scare.

Recently passed laws such as the hotly contested SB 276, which cut back on the number of medical exemptions and now allows investigations on doctors who write more than 5 medical exemptions a year, also show that California lawmakers and citizens are gradually moving away from anti-vaccination beliefs.

A large reason for the growth is that its now almost forced, said John Graves, a policy expert in Los Angeles. Parents arent given the choice anymore. The vast majority of parents believe in vaccines and want them for their own children because they dont want an outbreak or to spread debilitating diseases. So parents who want to opt out are ostracized.

From the cases Ive seen, other parents understand if its for a religious purpose or because theres a medical reason like an allergy or something to the vaccine. Theyll just be more careful around the children who dont have vaccines. But nearly all parents cant stand those that dont want to do it for the hell of it, or if theyre misguided.

This is a health and wellness issue, and it always has been. If its not for a legitimate reason, most parents think the person who doesnt vaccinate doesnt love their child. Ive seen a lot of similarities between this and in the 70s and 80s when seat-belt buckling for children became a huge issue, when there were claims that the seat belts hurt their kids more than helped them.

But now were seeing the tide turn with those new studies. It just took a lot of time for some parents to start getting it.

Evan V. Symon is the Senior Editor for the California Globe. Prior to the Globe, he reported for the Pasadena Independent, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and was head of the Personal Experiences section at Cracked. He can be reached at evan@californiaglobe.com.

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