Record high: non-vaccination of kindergarteners

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/22/kindergarten-mmr-vaccination-rates-dip

US kindergarten vaccination rates dip as exemptions hit record high

A week after Donald Trump made a series of misleading claims about vaccines – including that some injections look “like the size of a soda bottle” – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the latest data on national kindergarten vaccination rates.

“There’s been a decrease in immunization rates in all vaccines. There’s a decrease in immunizations in more than half the states, as opposed to the year before. There are at least 280,000 kindergarteners who did not get the [measles, mumps and rubella vaccine],” said Dr Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the division of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Chop).

Additionally, non-medical exemptions for vaccines for kindergarteners grew by 17% over the last school year – the highest single-year increase ever, from 3.6% to 4.2% nationwide.

This follows record-high measles outbreaks in the U.S., discussed in this thread:

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@vivify said
This follows record-high measles outbreaks in the U.S., discussed in this thread:

Thread 205899

@vivify said
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/22/kindergarten-mmr-vaccination-rates-dip

US kindergarten vaccination rates dip as exemptions hit record high

A week after Donald Trump made a series of misleading claims about vaccines – including that some injections look “like the size of a soda bottle” – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) re ...[text shortened]... the last school year – the highest single-year increase ever, from 3.6% to 4.2% nationwide.

Well, Darwinism suggests this will be better for the world in the long run…

Just to be clear: less Americans = happier planet.

@shavixmir said
Well, Darwinism suggests this will be better for the world in the long run…

Just to be clear: less Americans = happier planet.

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@YEAH-BOY said
Anti vax idiots don't care if they spread their diseases.

@Mott-The-Hoople said
You do know the anti-vax people were right about fauci’s fake vaccine don’t you?

Another Democrat shenanigan to win an election…doesn’t matter that it killed millions

@YEAH-BOY said
That's your very uneducated opinion as par for the course. The topic isn't about covid it's about getting vaccinated or not.

@Mott-The-Hoople said
You do know the anti-vax people were right about fauci’s fake vaccine don’t you?

Another Democrat shenanigan to win an election…doesn’t matter that it killed millions

@Mott-The-Hoople said
What do you expect when you open the borders to any and everyone…unchecked?

You libs are such gullible fools…you cheer on your party then whine about what we conservatives warned you about.

@shavixmir said
Well, Darwinism suggests this will be better for the world in the long run…

Just to be clear: less Americans = happier planet.

@Mott-The-Hoople said
You do know the anti-vax people were right about fauci’s fake vaccine don’t you?

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@Mott-The-Hoople said
Another Democrat shenanigan to win an election…doesn’t matter that it killed millions

President Donald Trump has dismissed claims that COVID-19 vaccines are broadly unsafe while asserting that his own role in the development of the vaccines may have saved 100 million lives.

Trump touted the effectiveness of Operation Warp Speed, his administration's program to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, during a Monday interview on the conservative podcast The Water Cooler.

"I was able to get something approved that, you know, that has proven to have saved a lot of lives," Trump said, ignoring Brody's request to weigh in on the anti-vaccine narrative. "Some people say that I saved 100 million lives worldwide."