CDC warns 270,000 children entered kindergarten unvaccinated last year as anti-vax reached 'record' high
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CDC warns 270,000 children entered kindergarten unvaccinated last year as anti-vax reached 'record' high

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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. 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. For the 2022-2023 school year three percent of kindergartners had a vaccine exemption from one or more required vaccines. This is an increase from 2.6 percent during the 2021-2022 school year and the highest the US has ever recorded The above map shows the state by state rates of vaccination exemptions for the 2022-2023 school year, highlighting the top five states with the highest percentages of exemptions The states with the highest percentage of kindergartners with vaccine exemptions are unchanged from last year, and remain Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wisconsin and Oregon. In the school year following the release of Covid vaccines, more parents were claiming vaccine exemptions: 2.6 percent in 2021-2022, compared to 2.2 percent in 2020-2021.

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