Rates of vaccination among kindergartners ticked down in the 2024–2025 school year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on July 31, as the number of exemptions rose.
Some 92.1 percent of kindergartners in the school year had the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine, down from 92.3 percent in the previous year, the CDC said.
Chickenpox vaccination declined from 92.3 percent to 92.1 percent; measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination went from 92.7 percent to 92.5 percent; and polio vaccination decreased from 92.7 percent to 92.5 percent in the 2024–2025 school year from the 2023–2024 school year, according to the newly released data.
Coverage with the diphtheria, chickenpox, measles, and polio vaccines also decreased in more than half of the states in America….