Across New York, there have been more than 300 confirmed measles cases, but the parents still believe, the exclusion order is causing them and their children 'irreparable harm.”
By Reis Thebault Reis Thebault National and breaking news reporter Email Bio Follow March 13 at 10:04 PM In a county at the epicenter of New York’s worst measles outbreak in decades, a group of parents is pushing to get their kids back in school. The problem? The children aren’t vaccinated.
Months later, the parents of more than 40 banned children at Green Meadow Waldorf School sued the Rockland County health department, asking a federal judge to allow the students to return to class. This week, U.S. District Court Judge Vincent Briccetti denied their request, ruling that it wasn’t in “public interest” to allow the children to go back to school.
For the children, the order has disrupted both their school and social lives, the filing says. In the parents’ case, their “intimate, constitutionally protected life choices ... have been trammeled.”Green Meadow is a private Waldorf school that, like others around the country, promotes spiritual development. There haven’t been any cases of measles confirmed there, the New York Times reported.
After Lindenberger’s appearance, Facebook announced its plan for combating anti-vaccine propaganda and false information on its platform. Google and Amazon have taken similar steps. At Green Meadow, the vaccination rate was just 33 percent when the December ban took effect, the Journal News reported, citing the county’s data. Since then, the county said it has risen to 56 percent, though a school’s spokeswoman told the Times the share was actually 83 percent — either way, short of the mandated threshold.
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