A presumably unvaccinated fraction of homeschooled children dispersed throughout Santa Barbara County does not pose a threat to public health, and the Public Health Department will not ferret out the data despite a Santa Barbara County Grand Jury recommendation to do so.

“This will not be implemented because there is no feasible method that will reliably study and estimate or count those vaccines in homeschooled children,” Santa Barbara County Public Health Director Dr. Mouhanad Hammami told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.

The county also will not follow a similar Grand Jury recommendation to study and estimate childhood vaccination levels among the county’s adult population, or a recommendation to isolate unvaccinated individuals while being held in County Jail.

But, the county wil

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