Medical Exemptions for Vaccines: What Qualifies?

by Dr. Ashley Mayer in Vaccine Education, Vaccine Safety, Vaccines September 20, 2021

I’ve put together these links below to help you navigate what is considered a Medical Exemption when trying to decide what is best for your child regarding vaccines. I believe I have also listed the current Covid-19 vaccine medical exemption criteria below.

Each vaccine has its own set of contraindications and precautions:

• Physician’s Screening checklist: contraindications to vaccines 

https://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4060.pdf

• Contraindications to childhood vaccines checklist

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/contraindications.pdf

• World Health Organization: Contraindications to Vaccination

https://www.who.int/immunization/policy/contraindications.pdf

• ACIP Contraindications to vaccination 

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/general-recs/contraindications.html

• CDC Contraindications to Vaccination 

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/general-recs/contraindications.pdf

• Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine Contraindications  & Precautions 

https://dsh.ca.gov/COVID-19/docs/Vaccination/COVID-19_Vaccines_Update_on_Allergic_Reactions_Contraindications_and_Precautions.pdf