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School-level perceptions and enforcement of the elimination of nonmedical exemptions to vaccination in California

Taylor A. Holroyda Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;b International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Amanda C. Howac Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USAView further author information
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Tina M. Proveauxa Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;d Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USAView further author information
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Paul L. Delamatere Department of Geography and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3627-9739View further author information
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Nicola P. Kleinf Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, Oakland, CA, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1777-4814View further author information
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Alison M. Buttenheimg Department of Family and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USAView further author information
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Rupali J. Limayea Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;b International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;d Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;h Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;i Department of Health, Behavior & Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3883-9720View further author information
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Saad B. Omerj Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA;k Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA;l Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USAView further author information
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Daniel A. Salmona Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;d Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;i Department of Health, Behavior & Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USAView further author information
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Pages 1986-1993 | Received 04 Sep 2020, Accepted 23 Nov 2020, Published online: 25 Jan 2021

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