Measles erupts in Florida school where 11% of kids are unvaccinated

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12 points·thunderbong··4 comments

I definitely need to move out of Florida before having kids.

Before you move, be sure to check out the local vaccination rate. For example, according to: https://www.ppic.org/blog/school-vaccination-rates-vary-acro...

>More than half of Oakland Unified’s 48 elementary schools and eight of its schools serving seventh graders are on the audit list for 2022-23. This includes Markham Elementary where 65% of the 66 kindergarten students were not fully vaccinated last school year. The school had the highest percentage of kindergartners in California’s traditional public schools — with over 20 students — who were not fully vaccinated.

>Of the 27 Oakland Unified elementary schools on the list, more than 20% of kindergarten students in a dozen schools did not have all the required vaccinations last school year.

It helps understand who benefits from unvaccinated kids. Most public schools require vaccinations, the unvaccinated pay for private (mostly religious) schools.

However, this outbreak in Florida seems to be in a public school, maybe vaccinations are not required in Florida?

It varies from state to state, but public school vaccine "requirements" are generally quite soft and often allow religious exemption with little or no justification.

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