Schools

Deadline Looms for Whooping Cough Vaccine

Coming Monday, 7th to 12th grade students will be barred from school if they do not submit evidence of a whooping cough vaccine or waiver.

The deadline looms for students in the Glendora Unified School District and the rest of California to submit proof of the Tdap booster vaccine for pertussis or “whooping cough” or a waiver—Monday, Oct. 3, to be exact.

After that date, students in 7th to 12th grade who have not submitted proof of the vaccine or the waiver to MUSD will not be permitted to attend school.

Students who opt to sign a waiver instead of getting immunized will be required by law to miss school for up to 21 days in the case of a whooping cough outbreak.

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