More than a quarter million kindergartners are entering school without their recommended childhood vaccines – and the number of kids with vaccine exemptions has hit a high.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows national coverage for all vaccines remained near 93 percent – falling short of the 95 percent recorded in the pre-pandemic 2019-2020 school year – meaning about 268,000 kindergartners are unvaccinated.
Additionally, for the 2022-2023 school year three percent of kindergartners had a vaccine exemption from one or more required vaccines – an increase from 2.6 percent during the 2021-2022 school year and the highest the US has ever recorded.
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Alexa Lardieri 