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[miriam]

The State Legislature  has extended the deadline by 60 days.  There is not enough $ to put nurses in the school to deliver the jabs and not enough personnel to process it all.

If there were a true emergency and the vaxes really worked, there would be no extension.  

[ma2two]

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Originally Posted by miriam 

The State Legislature  has extended the deadline by 60 days.  There is not enough $ to put nurses in the school to deliver the jabs and not enough personnel to process it all.

The extension is actually 30 days. A student can attend the first 30 days of the 2011-2012 school year without showing proof of the Tdap vaccine or turning in exemption paperwork. The bill, SB 614, was recently passed, and is awaiting the governor's signature.

Edited by ma2two - 7/18/11 at 10:23pm