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