The new regulations require physicians who grant an exemption to fill out forms outlining the medical reasons a child is not being vaccinated, effective immediately. In the past, physicians only had to submit a signed statement to schools, notifying them of the exemption.
The regulations seek to clarify the vaccine exemption process and come about two months after New York enacted a new law banning religious vaccine exemptions.
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