More parents are questioning routine childhood vaccinations that they used to automatically accept, an effect of the political schism that emerged during the pandemic around COVID-19 vaccines, experts say. Even though more kids were given exemptions, the national vaccination rate held steady: 93% of...
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The slide in vaccination rates was not unexpected. Online misinformation and the political schism that emerged around COVID-19 vaccines have led more parents to question the routine childhood vaccinations that they used to automatically accept, experts say. A decrease has already been reported...
Center for Vaccine Development analyzed this data and found that, among children enrolling in kindergarten, those with nonmedical exemptions have increased since 2009 in 12 states. The team concluded that this increase is associated with the lower rates of measles, mumps and rubella vaccination ...
Some vaccine preventable diseases are also re-emerging in middle-and-high-income countries (MHICs) due to low immunization rates (Glatman-Freedman and Nichols, 2012). The current literature has identified several key factors which influence childhood vaccination, including parental education, maternal ...
Methods We conducted an observational study to evaluate (1) weekly routine childhood vaccination rates by age group over 3 periods in 2020 and (2) the proportion UTD by age as of February, May, and September 2020. Changes in vaccination rates and the proportion UTD were then compared with an...
The debate over childhood vaccination has been in the news on and off for nearly a decade. In 2009 WIRED published a comprehensive cover story on the subject—An Epidemic of Fear—laying out the debate and analyzing how unjustified and unscientific thinking was fueling a growing anti-vaccine mov...
Nationwide, CDC has reported that kindergarten vaccination rates dipped last year and vaccine exemptions are at an all-time high. Thursday, it released state figures, showing that about 86% of kindergartners in Wisconsin got the whooping cough vaccine, compared to more than 92% nationally. Whoo...
Recently, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, including a measles outbreak in British Columbia, have ignited a firestorm of public debate about childhood vaccination and what should be done about current under-vaccination.