Vaccination debates: is our work on immunization ethics paying off?
On Monday 1 July an advisory committee on Child day care and vaccination, presented its advice to the government, secretary of state Paul Blokhuis. The committee emphasizes that the government should do more to promote the currently too low vaccination rate. This involves on the one hand, being more explicit in expression that parents should accept vaccination for the common good - to protect their own children and those of others. The committee also states that if the vaccination rate drops below a certain level - to be decided now - it should become mandatory for all child day care centers to require children to be vaccinated according to the national schedule.