Vaccination rate jumps in California
By Soumya Karlamangla and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times
The vaccination rate for California’s kindergartners soared this fall from the previous year, fueled by a state law that made it significantly tougher for parents to exempt schoolchildren from shots.
It was the highest vaccination rate among kindergartners since at least 1998, and comes after a measles outbreak that began at Disneyland in 2014 focused new attention on the issue.
Data released Wednesday showed that the percentage of California’s kindergartners as of last fall with all required vaccinations rose from 92.8 percent to 95.6 percent.
More kindergartners were also getting the measles vaccination.
