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Judge says 44 unvaccinated students are not allowed to return to school in case of measles outbreak

Yesterday, a federal judge denied a temporary injunction allowing 44 unvaccinated children to return to school in Rockland County, New York, in the middle of the state's worst measles outbreak ever since. decades.

The outbreak in Rockland County is so severe that infants in the area are currently following an accelerated measles vaccination schedule. Some infants receive their first injections six months earlier than the average and receive the second dose immediately.

Since September, 167 measles cases have been reported in New York.

"This is a clear and present danger right here in our community," said Dr. Douglas Puder, pediatrician at Clarkstown Pediatrics, last January. Clarkstown Pediatrics is at the heart of the biggest outbreak in Rockland County, New York. The county has reported 105 cases of measles since the fall. More than 80% on average had not been vaccinated.

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The judge's decision was rendered at the appearance of the parents' lawyer representing the 44 unvaccinated students at Green Meadow Waldorf School, who filed a lawsuit against the Rockland Department of Health and its commissioner. Parents sought to challenge a ban ordering unvaccinated children to go to school.

"We have had success, but the case is not over," said Thomas Humbach, Rockland County Attorney, in a statement. "Although nobody appreciates the fact that these children are not in school, these orders worked; they helped prevent the measles epidemic from spreading to this school population. "

With respect to the temporary injunction, the judge insisted that the concerned complainants (the parents of the unvaccinated children) adhered to the public interest. Parents disagree.

"Preventing my child from being with his clbad, his teacher, his clbad, has had a significant social and psychological impact," said one of the parents of a preschooler 4 years old. "It's confusing, given his young age, why he's not allowed on his campus."

Vaccinating these children would solve literally everything of these "problems", but I keep it away from the subject.

The epidemic, which mainly affected the Orthodox Jewish community, led the Commissioner, Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, to order some schools in the affected area where the vaccination rate is less than 95% to keep children unvaccinated.

Although court documents filed by Sussman State, students at Green Meadow are "97% immune to the disease," said the county's County Legal Department, stating that the school's vaccination rate was about 33% when the December 5th order was imposed. It then rose to about 56%. A vaccination rate of 95% or more is needed to prevent outbreaks of the disease.

Health officials in New York continue to do everything in their power to ensure that schools, daycares and kindergartens require vaccinations and exclusionary policies to stop the spread of measles as permitted by law.