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OPB Politics Now: The Politics Of Vaccines

April 26, 2019 9 p.m.
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Lawmakers in Oregon and Washington responded to the measles outbreak by trying to tighten state vaccine laws. The reaction has been loud and angry.

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On this week’s “OPB Politics Now,” OPB news editor Anna Griffin talks to OPB healthcare reporter Kristian Foden-Vencil and OPB political reporter Dirk VanderHart about the politics of vaccines and a bill in the legislature that would eliminate nonmedical exemptions to vaccines.

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