Vaccination rates for measles and other diseases dropped again last school year, according to a study published by the CDC.
Vaccination rates for measles and other diseases dropped again last school year, according to a study published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Coverage against measles dropped to the lowest it’s been in more than a decade. School requirements do not include the Covid-19 vaccine, which is explicitly banned from being included in school mandates in at least 20 states.
Experts say they’re paying close attention to vaccine hesitancy that increased during the pandemic, but it’s likely that the decline in vaccination rates among kindergarteners’ is more complicated than just one factor. “I think part of it is that well child visits maybe were missed and people are still trying to catch up on those well child visits.
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