In 2023, extra vaccine associated state laws that NVIC supported has handed into legislation than in another yr. The COVID-19 pandemic supplied an historic alternative to encourage and encourage energetic citizen involvement with the intention to educate state legislators in regards to the pressing want to guard the human and authorized proper to train voluntary, knowledgeable consent to vaccination.
The affect of change from our 14 years of grassroots organizing and targeted public schooling efforts is obvious. This yr’s NVIC’s 2023 Annual Report on U.S. State Vaccine Laws supplies proof the tide has turned to assist our 41-year mission to stop vaccine accidents and deaths by public schooling and to safe vaccine knowledgeable consent protections in U.S. public well being insurance policies and legal guidelines.
