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Author: Kelly Grant, Alanna Smith
Publication Date: March 31, 2025 - 19:35
Ontario chief medical officer stands by vaccine exemption law despite rising measles cases
March 31, 2025
Ontario’s top doctor says the government should not change a law that allows parents to exempt their children from routine vaccinations for philosophical or religious reasons, even as the province grapples with the largest outbreak of measles in nearly 30 years.Kieran Moore, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, said in an interview Monday that he supports letting unvaccinated children attend school so long as their parents have completed the necessary paperwork to release them from the otherwise mandatory requirements of the province’s Immunization of School Pupils Act.
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