Fewer parents vaccinating kindergartners, disease rising

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Fewer parents vaccinating kindergartners, disease rising

Fewer parents in the U.S. vaccinated their kindergartners as more sought exemptions from routine shots over the past school year, new data shows. 

The figures, released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, follow trends since the COVID-19 pandemic, with more parents foregoing children’s vaccines that have been instrumental in saving early lives. In turn, preventable diseases have resurfaced across the U.S.

The risks can be serious and even fatal for children, family members and others around them, said Dr. Georgina Peacock, director of the CDC’s Immunization Services Division.

“As we are noting these declines in childhood vaccination, we are also seeing more communities experience outbreaks of measles and whooping cough across the U.S.,” she said in a statement. “Vaccination is the best way to prevent these outbreaks and their devastating impact on children.”

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