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Vaccination rates drop to 10-year low for Michigan’s school–age children
Nearly 25,000 students had exemptions last year, and kindergarten waiver rates rose to 7.7% as confidence in childhood vaccines fell.
- Michigan school vaccine waiver rates climbed to 7.1% last year, marking the highest exemption level since 2010 and continuing a five-year streak of worsening vaccine participation.
- Political and cultural shifts since the COVID-19 pandemic have polarized attitudes, as epidemiologist Abram Wagner notes that waiver regulations often have short-term effects because parents learn how to "game the system."
- Kindergarten students lead this trend with a 7.7% waiver rate, while rural districts report double-digit figures; the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports a 4.2% national kindergarten exemption rate.
- While the Michigan for Vaccines coalition works to promote immunization, Michigan State Board of Education member Tom McMillin has opposed waiver education requirements, citing "hundreds" of emails from parents who feel "unfairly treated."
- President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order reducing recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, and confusion persists as parents navigate conflicting federal guidance, including HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s support for "shared clinical decision making.
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Vaccination rates drop to 10-year low for Michigan’s school–age children
The share of school-aged children in Michigan skipping regularly scheduled shots is at its highest level in 10 years, raising fresh questions about state rules on vaccine exemption waivers in the post-pandemic era.
·New York, United States
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