The updated requirements will take effect for all students entering Hawaii schools starting July 1, 2020. Children in childcare and preschools will be required to have hepatitis A and PCV immunizations; those entering kindergarten will have to receive the hepatitis A vaccine. Students beginning the seventh grade will have to have DTaP, HPV and MCV immunizations.
“These are recommendations that most physicians and clinics have been following for a decade or more,” said Health Director Bruce Anderson. “We are at increased risk in Hawaii for contagious diseases because of large number[s] of visitors.”
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