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Vaccine opt-out rate for Louisiana children skyrockets. Herd immunity at risk, experts say.

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During the 2022-23 school year, about 2.3% of children entering school requested exemptions. That's around double the year before, when 1.1% of kindergarten students requested nonmedical exemptions. From 2011 to 2017, the average exemption rate was around 0.75%. Health experts worry that making it easier to opt out may push the state into outbreak territory.

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Vaccine opt-out rate for Louisiana children skyrockets. Herd immunity at risk, experts say.

Parents opted out of vaccines for Louisiana’s kindergartners at the highest rate in at least a decade as several new bills to weaken vaccine requirements continue to advance in the

1 month ago·New Orleans, United States

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