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California children receive 50 doses of 14 different vaccines by age six, and 69 doses of 16 vaccines by age 18. Thousands of parents and grandparents traveled to the California State Capitol Monday f
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It was late afternoon on September 10, 2017, and Bruce Leshan was at home repairing a crack in his carâs windshield, in the placid Maplewood section of Bethesda, when he heard a scream. âGet out!â the
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