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2023年12月4日月曜日

米国においてワクチンに対する信頼が暴落し接種率急落、回復の兆し無し

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2023年12月4日月曜日

米国において既存の幼児や子供への各種ワクチン接種義務に対する拒否が倍増

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D.C. students will no longer need to vaccinate against coronavirus
The vote ends a long-running debate over whether students need to get shots or be barred from school
November 7, 2023 at 6:37 p.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/11/07/dc-school-covid-vaccine-mandate/

D.C. schools bar students from classrooms for missing vaccines
The mandates had not been enforced. Now parents are scrambling for medical appointments.
By Lauren Lumpkin
December 6, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST

Students who are behind on routine vaccinations were kept out of D.C. schools this week, sending parents scrambling for appointments and lining up outside clinics.
Every year, schools say students must acquire a raft of vaccinations to guard against contagions such as measles, mumps, rubella and hepatitis B. But the D.C. law has historically not been enforced. More than 23,000 students were behind at the start of last school year.
Officials have pleaded with families to get up to date. Starting Monday, they barred some students from school. From King Elementary in Ward 8 to Jackson-Reed High School in Ward 3, students were turned away from their classrooms until they become immunized against various contagions — a first for their parents.

“I had to stay home and miss work,” said Takeyiah Riggins, whose 5-year-old daughter was not allowed to attend school at King. Riggins, a nursing assistant, said she didn’t receive any warnings about her daughter’s missing vaccines. “I feel like they should have some understanding.”

 

She spoke with a reporter while waiting in line with dozens of families on Tuesday in the crowded lobby of a Children’s National vaccine clinic in Shaw. Some had rushed from work and lined up before the site opened at 5 p.m. Children played games on tablets and iPhones to pass the time.

The Office of the State Superintendent of Education — which keeps citywide data on attendance — did not answer questions about how many children were turned away from schools this week. And D.C. Health did not answer questions about how many children are behind on shots.

Although the city had sent warnings, many families were surprised to see enforcement begin. School officials focused on students in pre-K3, kindergarten, seventh and 11th grades, points at which students are supposed to have certain vaccines — including chickenpox and tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough. Students in D.C. are not required to get coronavirus vaccines.

Immunization rates dipped during the pandemic, when many families avoided medical settings and skipped regular doctor appointments. But in the months since children have returned from virtual learning, numbers have been slow to pick up. About a third of students were still behind on shots in the weeks leading up to this school year.

“There’s been a concerted effort in the pediatric community to try and reengage with families,” said Dr. Nathaniel Beers, executive vice president of community and population health at Children’s National Hospital. Officials have made progress, but “there still have been some families who we’ve been unable to get caught up.”

City and school officials urged families to get up to date in August, when they shared plans to expand clinics and make it easier to submit medical forms. D.C. Public Schools sent reminders in September and November.

The final notice from the district, shared on Friday, warned that students who were still out of compliance would be “temporarily excluded from school.”

Emily Mechner, whose 16-year-old son was turned away from Jackson-Reed High School, said she never saw the first message the school system said it sent to noncompliant families, but she did receive the second notice in the mail after Thanksgiving. On Friday, she started getting emails, robocalls and other messages.

“That was the first sign I had they were actually going to do anything,” she said. Her son was missing the second dose of the meningococcal ACWY vaccine, which helps protect against meningitis and blood poisoning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The teen described to his mom a “scene of chaos” as students showed up to school and were sent back home, she said.

“The system has been very casual about it for all of the years my kids have been in DCPS,” Mechner added. “No one really ever cared before if they were a few months behind.”

D.C. students will no longer need to vaccinate against coronavirus

Mechner said she first tried to book a pediatrician visit over the summer, but the office was backed up for months. She made another attempt last week, she said, but was unable to get through.
Up against the Dec. 4 deadline, Mechner scheduled an appointment for Sunday at CVS, but the store canceled that morning, she said. She rebooked online. That appointment was canceled too.
On Monday morning, she looked for the vaccine at two different Walgreens stores. She waited for hours. Both were out of stock.
“I wasted half my day chasing vaccines around town,” Mechner said. “I don’t think it’s right to make examples out of people or to kick them out of school for this.”
Mechner is not alone. Beers said Tuesday that appointment availability at Children’s National had “substantially waned in the last 96 hours.” There does not appear to be a shortage of vaccines, but there is a strain on medical professionals.
“There’s certainly, in health care across the board, ongoing staffing challenges that mean practices are not as efficient as they have been in the past, in being able to see as many children as they have in the past,” Beers said, adding that doctors are also contending with an uptick in respiratory viruses.
Solie Williams, a catering coordinator, is also waiting for a doctor’s appointment, which is scheduled for the end of this month. When her 13-year-old son arrived at school Monday, he wasn’t allowed to go to class until his mother proved he had an upcoming appointment, she said.
“It’s not my fault the doctors and the nurses are short-staffed,” Williams said, waiting at the clinic in Shaw. “It’s very inconvenient for a lot of people. I feel bad because he missed his lessons today.”
Dozens of other families stood in line for shots shortly after the clinic opened, and more were on the way. A staff member later informed them only 130 would be seen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/12/06/dc-schools-bar-students-classrooms-missing-vaccines/

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