California broadens investigation of doctors for issuing questionable vaccine exemptions.
Vaccine exemptions for medical reasons should be rare, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They are typically reserved for children with severely compromised immune systems, like those being treated for cancer or those who are allergic to a vaccine component or have previously had a severe reaction to a vaccine.
A spokesman for the medical board declined to comment on the cases. The agency generally does not acknowledge investigations publicly unless a formal accusation is filed against a physician. But the board’s legal efforts to obtain patient records sheds rare light on how the agency handles such complaints.
It “tells me that there are doctors who are giving problematic exemptions and the Medical Board of California is taking this issue very seriously,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor at University of California-Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco who researches vaccine law.Sutton, based in Fair Oaks, is known as a go-to doctor for medical vaccine exemptions. She
a $97 “program” that purports to “help protect your child from the ‘One Size Fits All’ California vaccine mandate.”
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