Schools have more unvaccinated kids than they realize.

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Thousands of kindergarteners aren’t vaccinated, but also don’t have exemptions.

Every kid who can needs to get their shot before starting school
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▼ We’ve focused a lot this year on how many kids get out of  vaccinations with exemptions, and how those pockets of unimmunized children propel  ongoing measles outbreaks. We’ve focused less on a larger group of people: those without an exemption who still aren’t vaccinated.
We don’t keep great track of these folks, but 28 states maintain counts of how many kindergarteners enter school undervaccinated, and how many of those have exemptions their parents applied for based on religious or philosophical objections. Of those states, 26 have MMR vaccine coverage under the herd immunity threshold of 95 percent (meaning that not enough people are vaccinated to reliably keep measles from spreading). But if every kid without an exemption got vaccinated, the CDC estimatesthat 20 of those states could get over the threshold.
In 11 of those 28 states, there were fewer unvaccinated kindergartenerswithexemptions than unvaccinated kindergartenerswithout.
There are any number of reasons why these kids might be un- or undervaccinated. Their parents might not be against vaccines at all, but instead may not have the insurance to easily afford a shot for their kids, or perhaps have no time to bring their child to a pediatrician. That’s why schools have generally granted provisions—to give parents more time to get their kids to see a doctor.
But the AP reportsthat officials say there’s no system to actually follow up to make sure those kids got vaccines in a timely fashion.  (▪ ▪ ▪)

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In India  percentage of vaccination of Children is very low compared to Western Countries. This has lot to do with superstitions of parents in rural areas as well as many hoax spread on internet. Some religious dilemma also help to decrease in Vaccination. As well as incompetence of some government employees is also responsible.
This can be avoided with more counselling to those involved in process of Vaccination...