Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont is overruling his public health commissioner, saying he wants school-by-school vaccination rates released.
Max Reiss, the governor's spokesman, said Wednesday the Democrat "finds this information important" and believes "the public has the right to know," including state legislators, who've discussed possibly ending a religious exemption from vaccines.
Reiss' comments come a day after Department of Public Health Commissioner Renee Coleman Mitchell said she only planned to release county-by-county immunization data and not school-by-school vaccination rates, noting there have been no new measles cases in Connecticut since April.
DPH is expected this week to release statewide vaccination data. Reiss said county-by-county data will be released in October and school-by-school numbers sometime afterward, once it's been verified.
A Woodstock couple has sued DPH to stop the data release.
