Posted on 08/01/2025 10:16:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Just over 92% of 2024-25 kindergartners got their required measles-mumps-rubella shots, down slightly from the previous year.
U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Thursday.
The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 4.1%, up from 3.7% the year before. It's the third record-breaking year in a row for the exemption rate, and the vast majority are parents withholding shots for nonmedical reasons.
Meanwhile, 92.5% of 2024-25 kindergartners got their required measles-mumps-rubella shots, down slightly from the previous year. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccination rate was 95% — the level that makes it unlikely that a single infection will spark a disease cluster or outbreak.
The vaccination numbers were posted as the U.S. experiences its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, with more than 1,300 cases so far.
“The concern, of course, is that with a further dip in the (vaccination) coverage, we’re going to see even more measles in the coming months,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
It's possible that this year's outbreaks may spur more parents to get their children vaccinated before they go to school, said O'Leary, a University of Colorado pediatric infectious diseases specialist.
But Dr. Philip Huang isn't optimistic. Texas was particularly hard hits by measles this year, with more than half of the cases reported nationally. Despite that, the state passed a law making it easier for parents to get school vaccine exemptions for their kids.
“It's crazy,” said Huang, Dallas County's health director.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention traditionally releases the vaccination coverage data in its flagship publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC officials usually speak to the...
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They DO want their child protected. That's why they're not giving them something that has zero liability protection for them but full liability protection for the manufacturer and the government that oversees it.
You more than welcome to assume the liability for it.
I guess you don't get much news up your holler a'?
Dug, haven’t you ever wondered why there are no FDA approved therapeutics for measles or chickenpox...?
Think about that, and you may be able to answer your own question.
No child should be required to be vaccinated for anything not casually transmissible in a school setting as a condition of going to school and medical exemptions should never be questioned.
mewzilla wrote: “Dug, haven’t you ever wondered why there are no FDA approved therapeutics for measles or chickenpox...?”
Why spend millions developing anti-viral therapies for diseases that are easily prevented by safe and effective vaccines? (Other than to appease the egos of a few anti-vaxxers?)
Think about that.
unread wrote: “I guess you don’t get much news up your holler a’?”
Evidently, I get more news than the troglodytes living in your cave.
T.B. Yoits wrote: “They DO want their child protected. That’s why they’re not giving them something that has zero liability protection for them but full liability protection for the manufacturer and the government that oversees it.”
Liability protection was enacted to ensure vaccines were available. This protection was necessary because of the unprincipled doctors like Wakefield who, in conjunction with ambulance chasing lawyers, were initiating unfounded lawsuits that threatened to litigate the vaccine makers out of business.
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Ford4000 wrote: “No child should be required to be vaccinated for anything not casually transmissible in a school setting as a condition of going to school and medical exemptions should never be questioned.”
Medical exemptions should be questioned since some doctors will issue such exemptions when they are not justified. And, no, personal objections to vaccinations are not justified. Exemptions for cash are not justified.
The liability exemption wouldn't be necessary if they could make a safe product. Period.
If it's not safe, don't release it.
T.B. Yoits wrote: “The liability exemption wouldn’t be necessary if they could make a safe product. Period. If it’s not safe, don’t release it.”
These products are safe. It’s unreasonable to insist that any product with any side effect should not be on the market. If this standard were applied universally, there would be no cars, no airplanes, no ladders, etc. All firearms would be outlawed. Is that what you want?
That's some serious Cognitive Dissonance: "They're safe but the manufacturers must be exempted from liability."
It’s unreasonable to insist that any product with any side effect should not be on the market.
Unreasonable? According to government and manufacturing korporations. Flip it the correct way; it's unreasonable to insist a victim or their family have no recourse.
And the Jim Jones Jab was not "on the market" - statists were issuing illegal diktats to force victims to take it, not a market choice for consumers. Let's not pretend here.
If this standard were applied universally,
Nice flaw in logic, claiming "applied universally". The reverse is true: A cookie baker has more liability than the manufacturer of experimental physiological treatments.
there would be no cars, no airplanes, no ladders, etc. All firearms would be outlawed.
More flaws in logic and what a twisted line: "If you don't accept this exemption for untested injections from pharmaceutical korporations, you won't have cars, airplanes, ladders" NONE OF WHICH HAVE LIABILITY EXEMPTIONS FOR MANUFACTURERS
Is that what you want?
This is a two-fer; claiming that's what I'm asking for when I'm not. As I wrote, manufacturers of cars, airplanes, and ladders do NOT have liability exemption. Secondly, this is an appeal to personal interest. It doesn't matter what I want. What matters is that we've seen the consequence of korporations having liability exemption for their actions and they should be hauled into court and charged for every coverup, failed data release, and bait and switch they've done.
Every single of their paid propagandists should be charged as well.
T.B. Yoits wrote: “That’s some serious Cognitive Dissonance: “They’re safe but the manufacturers must be exempted from liability.””
No, they must be exempted from frivolous lawsuits.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists to compensate those injured by vaccines. So, there is recourse for those injured by vaccines.
Without the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 there would be no vaccines.
But, you knew these things.
You also know that the COVID vaccines had been tested and that vaccine mandates are legal.
That's a bald-faced lie. They're exempted from liability lawsuits. No court determines if the suits are frivolous because no court hears the case. The exception of course is fraud because fraud vitiates everything.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists to compensate those injured by vaccines. So, there is recourse for those injured by vaccines.
What absolute spin. Sick. Recourse only after the experiment? Sick. And that "recourse" doesn't allow for punitive damages, nor to stop repeat behavior on the part of the perpetrator.
Without the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 there would be no vaccines.
That's an outright lie. Just stop it. There were vaccines for decades before that unconstitutional Act.
But, you knew these things.
No. I know the opposite.
You also know that the COVID vaccines had been tested and that vaccine mandates are legal.
No, no one except Pfizer and MurdeRNA know how much they've been tested because they refuse to release the data (despite being required to for the Emergency Use Authorization) and they intentionally injected the control group.
And the mandates were illegal, AND YOU KNOW THAT. Here's just one example:
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/paxton-victorious-lawsuit-against-biden-administrations-vaccine-mandate-federal-contractors
AND YET CONGRESS EXEMPTED THEMSELVES, THEIR STAFF, EMPLOYEES OF PHARMACEUTICAL KORPORATOINS, AND ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS
"Rules for thee but not for me."
Thank you for once again exposing yourself as a paid propagandist for Pfascists.
T.B. Yoits wrote: “AND YET CONGRESS EXEMPTED THEMSELVES, THEIR STAFF, EMPLOYEES OF PHARMACEUTICAL KORPORATOINS, AND ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS”
Show me where Congress exempted employees of pharmaceutical corporations and ‘alien invaders’.
The Congress is automatically exempt from dictates from the executive branch, it’s called Separation of Powers, it’s part of the Constitution.
It was supposedly a HEALTH mandate and having even one group exempt from it means all others would be exempted from it.
Get the MMR at 6 months if you want your kid to be ADHD/Retarded. That’s it’s purpose. Tested for 20 years for that effect.
Elites don’t vaccinate their kids.
Be the mark
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