The decline in vaccinations is part of a national and global trend
With his mother Anne, 1-year-old James Judge gets his 12-month set of vaccines from nurse Meghan Elwess at Lurie Children's Primary Care — Town & Country Pediatrics on Oct. 18, 2022, in Chicago.
The slide is part of a national and global trend amid the pandemic. In the 2020-2021 school year, the percentage of kindergartners across the country who got routineby about 1 percentage point, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He cried as he received five jabs in his thighs, one right after the other, for hepatitis A; the flu; a shot for measles, mumps and rubella; a pneumococcal vaccine; and a vaccine to protect against chickenpox. But Judge felt it was worth it.
Measles also still sporadically pops up in the Chicago area, as some parents have resisted vaccinating their kids against it. In 2019, nine cases of measles were reported in Illinois, At least 200 children in the U.S. died of the flu during the 2019-2020 flu season. Children can begin receiving flu shots once they’re 6 months old.
“A lot of the vaccine efficacy and vaccine safety came into question and came into the public eye, and it created a lot more mistrust of vaccines in general,” said Dr. Panorea Mathews-Kukla, a pediatrician and department chair of pediatrics at Duly Health and Care.
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