Kids back to school as vaccine rates decrease, exemptions increase | NYGazet

As nonmedical exemptions rise across the country, vaccine rates among kindergarteners are steadily decreasing.

Before becoming a school nurse in Austin, Texas, Becca Harkleroad assumed mandated childhood vaccinations were just part of back-to-school. “It never occurred to me until I was a school nurse that immunizations could be such a controversial topic,” s... [5522 chars]