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What’s The History Of Religious Exemptions To Vaccines?

What’s The History Of Religious Exemptions To Vaccines?

Curious City · WBEZ Chicago

September 23, 202119m 13s

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Show Notes

While resistance to vaccine mandates goes back 200 years but state laws allowing for religious exemptions were rare until the 1960s. And faith leaders from the Pope to imams have pushed Americans to get vaccinated. So why do religious exemptions exist? Reporter Andrew Meriwether digs into the complicated history of religious exemptions.