Looney, Duff on Court Upholding School Vaccine Requirements

“This ruling is a win for every Connecticut parent who sends a child to school expecting that classroom to be safe from measles. With 98.2 percent of Connecticut kindergartners vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella in the 2024-25 school year, our state is proof that strong school vaccine requirements work. While the Trump regime hands national vaccine policy to skeptics and measles outbreaks spread in other states, we will not let Republicans in Washington undo a public health achievement that Connecticut’s doctors, nurses, and parents worked so hard to build.”

-Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) responding after a Connecticut Superior Court judge dismissed the remaining claims in a lawsuit challenging the state’s elimination of religious exemptions from school vaccine requirements.

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