Routine Childhood Vaccination Refusals Hit All-Time High, CDC Says

According to a CDC report, the number of children whose caregivers are opting them out of routine childhood vaccinations has reached an all-time high.

“The overall percentage of children with an exemption increased from 2.6% during the 2021–22 school year to 3.0% during the 2022–23 school year, the highest exemption rate ever reported in the United States,” the CDC stated.

“During the 2022–23 school year, nationwide vaccination coverage among kindergarten children remained approximately 93% for MMR, DTaP, polio, and VAR, similar to that in the 2021–22 school year, lower than the 94% coverage in the 2020–21 school year, and lower still than the 95% coverage during the 2019–20 school year, when children were vaccinated before the COVID-19 public health emergency,” the public health agency wrote.

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