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

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Seither, Ranee ; Calhoun, Kayla ; Street, Erica J. ; Mellerson, Jenelle ; Knighton, Cynthia L. ; Tippins, Ashley ; Underwood, J. Michael
• Description:
  State and local school vaccination requirements help protect students and communities against vaccine-preventable Diseases (1). CDC reports vaccination coverage and exemption data for children attending kindergarten (kindergartners) collected by federally funded immunization programs in the United States* The typical age range for kindergartners is 4-6 years. Although vaccination requirements vary by state (the District of Columbia [DC] is counted as a state in this report.), 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 (2). This report summarizes 2016-17 school year MMR, DTaP, and varicella vaccination coverage reported by immunization programs in 49 states, exemptions in 50 states, and kindergartners provisionally enrolled or within a grace period in 27 states. Median vaccination coverage| was 94.5% for the state-required number of doses of DTaP; 94.0% for 2 doses of MMR; and 93.8% for 2 doses of varicella vaccine. The median percentage of kindergartners with an exemption from at least one vaccine| was 2.0%, similar to 2015-16 (1.9%). Median grace period and provisional enrollment was 2.0%. Vaccination coverage remains consistently high and exemptions low at state and national levels. Local-level vaccination coverage data provide opportunities for immunization programs to identify schools, districts, counties, or regions susceptible to vaccine-preventable Diseases and for schools to address undervaccination through implementation of existing state and local vaccination policies (1) to protect communities through increased coverage.
• Subjects:
  Chickenpox Vaccine Child Child, Preschool Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine Full Report Humans Immunization Schedule Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine Schools Vaccination
• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 66(40):1073-1080.
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6640a3
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  29023430
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5657930
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  8 pdf pages
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  40
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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