Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and we are joined today by Barbara Lo Fisher who is the co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center for over 35 years ago and has been on this interview series many times for all her work and efforts.

And today we're going to invite her to discuss and elaborate on the intensive pressure to remove exemptions that have been really

given us an optional out if we have carefully researched the information out there and

come to a conclusion that we don't agree with it, we can opt out, but they're taking aggressive

efforts now now certainly California

extending to other states and Barbara is going to give us an update on that which I'm

sure you're going to enjoy so welcome thank you for joining this today Barbara

oh thank you so much Dr. Merc Yes, it's been an incredible year, an unprecedented year in this country. The assault on vaccine exemptions has covered the whole country.

The National Vaccine Information Center

has monitored more than 500 vaccine related bills

that have been introduced in the states this year that we have actively reported on and issued

action alerts in many cases on more than 200 vaccine related bills in 30 states, including the as well as the District of Columbia.

So what has happened this year as a result of the World Health Organization declaring that vaccine hesitancy is one of the top 10 global threats to health in this world, which was immediately followed by, and I don't think coincidentally, followed by reports of outbreaks of measles.

As the number two. And just like in 2015.

You're going to need, excuse me,

but you're going to need, after you just finish what you're saying,

you're going to need to elaborate on why that's such a laughable statement.

Well, it was like deja vu. For many of us, at 2015, there was an announcement of an outbreak of measles at Disneyland and the same thing that happened

this year happened in 2015 a huge hysteria nationally hype about the dangers of measles and how it was all the fault of

children going to school with vaccine exemptions. Okay even though less than 2% of children go to school with vaccine exemptions for any reason in this country. But that height in 2015 stampeded the California legislature into removing the personal belief

vaccine exemption. This year is stampeded the fear and hype about measles outbreaks,

stampeded the states of Maine and New York

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