Fewer young children are receiving common vaccinations, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Of children born in 2020 or 2021, 1.2 percent have received no vaccinations at age 2, compared to 0.9 percent of children born in 2018 or 2019 at age 2, the CDC says in the paper.
Coverage of each recommended vaccine has also dropped, said the researchers, all of whom are employed by the CDC.
Just 91.9 percent of children born in 2020 or 2021 have received at least three doses of a polio vaccine, for instance, down 1.5 percent from those born in 2018 or 2019. Influenza vaccination was down from 63.4 percent to 55.6 percent, the largest reduction recorded. […]
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