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Child vaccination rates drop again amid record exemptions
New data: The CDC found that during the 2024-25 school year, 4.1% of kindergartners had a vaccine exemption, surpassing the previous high of 3.7% from the year before. Nearly all were nonmedical, meaning they were for religious or other reasons. [NBC News]
Gains in vaccination may reflect heightened public awareness of the importance of vaccination during the pandemic.
But amid the pandemic, vaccination rates fell, dropping to 93.9 percent MMR coverage in the 2020–2021 year, and have kept creeping downward. At the height of the pandemic, some slippage in ...
National Immunization Awareness Month highlights the importance of lifelong vaccination to prevent diseases, a practice that ...
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Immunization rates continue to decline for school-age children across the Mid-South
It’s the time of year where the waiting room at Le Bonheur Children’s Outpatient Center in the Medical District will soon be ...
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