Idaho and Washington, D.C., had the lowest vaccination rates among kindergartners. Louisiana and Mississippi had the highest.
entering kindergarten in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, though states allow medical exemptions and, in some cases, religious or philosophical exemptions as well.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends four doses administered at specific intervals between the ages of 2 months and 6 years. The vaccine protects against severe disease inCDC data shows that around 93% of U.S. kindergarteners had received four doses by the 2020-2021 school year. In Louisiana and Mississippi, vaccination rates were above 98%. But rates were far lower in other areas of the country: around 80% in the District of Columbia, 86% in Idaho and 87% in Wisconsin.
In Rockland County, where New York’s polio case was detected, only 60% of children have received three doses by the age of 2, according to theamong kindergarteners in 2020-2021 compared to previous school years.
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