In Ontario and New Brunswick, parents and caregivers are required to report student vaccine records to public health to enforce legislation like the Immunization of School Pupils Act. The act requires proof of immunization for students to attend school, with exceptions just for medical or ideological reasons.
During the height of COVID, Oda said limits on in-person appointments and the diversion of health care resources away from preventative care like immunization created barriers to routine childhood vaccinations. Now, lack of access to primary care providers continues to limit vaccinations even for willing families, she said.
It’s easy to nblame the anti vax morons, but we also have to acknowledge the huge impact the family doctor shortages are having on this too.
Our healthcare systems have been gutted and this is the result.
I’m not sure I follow… you think it’s required to have a family doctor in order to get vaccinated?
That’s a contributing factor, yes
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/measles-vaccination-coverage-1.7525234
Thank you for the info
Sorry, didn’t answer you, not required, but it causes people to not get vaccinated.
I don’t disagree that if we had more and more present family doctors this would have been significantly mitigated.
But it’s primarily the fault of antivax morons. There are populations with fewer family doctors per capita that have higher vaccination rates.