"For the last 40 years, our main goal has been to protect those children at highest risk of measles, mumps, rubella, polio... and that's those children that have chronic illnesses that make them more vulnerable," said Dr. Daniel P. Edney, the state health officer.
Buoyed by their success at overturning coronavirus mandates, medical and religious freedom groups are taking aim at a new target: childhood school vaccine mandates, long considered the foundation of the nation's defense against infectious disease.
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