Vaccination Coverage for Selected Vaccines, Exemption Rates, and Provisional Enrollment Among Children in Kindergarten - United States, 2016-17 School Year

State and local school vaccination requirements help protect students and communities against vaccine preventable diseases. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports vaccination coverage and exemption data for children attending kindergarten (kindergartners) collected by federally funded immunizatio...

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Published in:MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2017, Vol.66 (40), p.1073-1080
Main Authors: Seither, Ranee, Calhoun, Kayla, Street, Erica J, Mellerson, Jenelle, Knighton, Cynthia L, Tippins, Ashley, Underwood, J Michael
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Chicken pox
Children
Diphtheria
Disease control
Enrollments
Immunization
Measles
Mumps
Pertussis
Preschool education
Private schools
Public health
Rubella
School districts
Tetanus
Vaccines
Varicella
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Summary:State and local school vaccination requirements help protect students and communities against vaccine preventable diseases. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports vaccination coverage and exemption data for children attending kindergarten (kindergartners) collected by federally funded immunization programs in the US. The typical age range for kindergartners is 4 to 6 years. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends that children in this age range have received, among other vaccinations, 5 doses of diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine (DTaP), 2 doses of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR), and 2 doses of varicella vaccine.
ISSN:0149-2195
1545-861X