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Dan Walters Daily: Vaccine requirements challenge personal liberty


Students at Huntington Park high school get whooping cough shots on July 6, 2011.
Students at Huntington Park high school get whooping cough shots on July 6, 2011. Los Angeles Times

Should California require parents to vaccinate their children? The debate gets at a fundamental tension between personal liberty and collective welfare, Dan says.

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This story was originally published February 4, 2015 at 9:59 PM.

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