In 2023, extra vaccine associated state laws that NVIC supported has handed into legislation than in some other yr. The COVID-19 pandemic supplied an historic alternative to encourage and encourage lively citizen involvement as a way 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 influence of change from our 14 years of grassroots organizing and targeted public training efforts is evident. This yr’s NVIC’s 2023 Annual Report on U.S. State Vaccine Laws supplies proof the tide has turned to help our 41-year mission to forestall vaccine accidents and deaths via public training and to safe vaccine knowledgeable consent protections in U.S. public well being insurance policies and legal guidelines.
