'We are sweating': Missouri kindergarten vaccination rates fall below immunity threshold

[RandySF]

The percentage of kindergarten students in Missouri vaccinated against diseases like measles and whooping cough is dropping each year as more parents turn in non-medical exemptions prior to their child’s first day of school.

Only 90% of Missouri kindergarten students were immunized against measles, mumps and rubella last year, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. That’s down from 94.6% five years prior. Some counties have rates nearing 75%.

According to the CDC and World Health Organization, a community needs a vaccination rate of at least 95% to be adequately protected from measles outbreaks.

“We are sweating,” Dr. Laura Morris, a University of Missouri Health Care family medicine physician and liaison to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, told The Independent. “There are a couple of diseases that are very infectious that require really high rates of vaccination to provide herd immunity.”



https://missouriindependent.com/2025/08/26/we-are-sweating-missouri-kindergarten-vaccination-rates-fall-below-immunity-threshold/

[LonePirate]

1. It's going to take a huge number of deaths preventable by vaccines before this nonsense ends.

I feel for those poor souls, be they kids or adults, who will lose their lives because their parents or others around them possess anti-vax views.