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Do daycare centers and schools require vaccinations?

16 doctors weighed in across 7 answers

Yes: In the US, daycare center, preschool, or school can require you to provide proof that your child has been immunized. All public elementary schools require proof of vaccination for children entering school, and most private schools do, too.Exemptions are permitted for medical reasons.Mississippi West Virginia allow people to refuse vaccinations for religious reasons.

Answered 11/28/2014

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Yes: They require vaccinations with copies of vaccination records presented in a timely fashion (sometimes within a week of vaccination due dates).

Answered 3/1/2019

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Yes: Daycare centers, schools, and our community as a whole, require childhood vaccinations so that our children won't suffer the great harm that many bad diseases used to inflict upon us.

Answered 6/1/2011

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Yes: Most schools of all types require vaccination to enter, both for the child's good as well as for the protection of other students. Some schools, especially some private schools, may not follow or enforce these rules. Depending on your area of residence, many daycare centers and preschools follow similar rules, normally established by a state or local department of public health.

Answered 7/1/2015

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Dr. Josephine Ruiz-healy answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Yes: Day care centers and schools require vaccinations in order to protect your child as well as the other children. Diseses like whooping cough, chickenpox and measles that can safely be prevented with vaccines, are now a mayor problem in many states due to unvaccinated children.

Answered 9/28/2016

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Dr. Kevin Windisch answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Yes: Specifically what is required and when is outlined in your specific state's health laws.

Answered 9/28/2016

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Yes: It is important for facilities caring for young children to enforce vaccine recommendations. This is because, many illnesses in children are transmitted from children who are in close contact with each other. Without these important regulations, childcare centers would be vectors for serious disease (which would put your child and others at high risk of life-threatening illnesses).

Answered 4/5/2013

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