U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates dipped last year and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Wednesday.
The share of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 3.3%, up from 3% the year before. Meanwhile, 92.7% of kindergartners got their required shots, which is a little lower than the previous two years. Before the COVID-19 pandemic the vaccination rate was 95%, the coverage level that makes it unlikely that a single infection will spark a disease cluster or outbreak.
The changes may seem slight but are significant, translating to about 80,000 kids not getting vaccinated, health officials say.
The rates help explain a worrisome creep in cases of whooping cough, measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases, said Dr. Raynard Washington, chair of the Big Cities Health Coalition, which represents 35 large metropolitan public health departments.
Short of medical, there shouldn’t be exemptions. Sorry if that offends anyone. No I take that back, I’m not sorry.
If you want to form your own polio colony, you can do that, but you stay there and don’t come out.
The cat loaf has spoken.
Guess “my body, my choice” stops mattering to you once it’s no longer politically useful, huh?
Abortions aren’t contagious, but infectious diseases are, so you have a civic responsibility to protect yourself and therefore the greater whole.
You thought you had something there, huh.
Not at all. You can absolutely choose not to vaccinate. It just limits the places you’re able to work, or send your kids to school.
The freedom to swing your arms, ends at someone else’s nose. If you choose to set yourself up to spread a deadly infection, it makes sense for society to limit your chance of doing so.
It stops mattering once it starts…
Weird of you to have gone through their comment history and see what phrases they’ve used though.
For the sake of clarity, is this just basic trolling, or are you breathtakingly stupid?
Well that’s about the dumbest thing I’ve read since some republican talked.
You can choose to be diseased, but inflicting it on others denies them the choice.
Yes, because kids catching polio from some asshole who won’t vaccinate or otherwise care for their own kids is their choice and what they want. Yup, totally apt comparison. /s
You know why so many conservatives are rapists and plague rats?
Because in either case, they don’t care about the consent of the other people involved.
You want to give yourself smallpox or polio? Fucking go for it, bud. Nobody here is gonna stop you. But what you don’t have the right to is participate in activities where you could endanger other people.
So by all means, give yourself tuberculosis. Just stay the fuck away from civilized society when you do.
It is their body, ther choice to stay away from the rest of society.