{"id":817107,"date":"2026-08-18T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/817107\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:48:07","slug":"kindergarten-vaccine-exemptions-jump-to-another-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/817107\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten vaccine exemptions jump to another record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HMF6T34NTNFEFNKYBPTB4GZPDI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The share of U.S. kindergartners with exemptions from school vaccine requirements for the 2025-2026 school year rose to another record high, according to federal data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/schoolvaxview\/data\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/schoolvaxview\/data\/index.html\">posted Monday.<\/a> The sharp increase from 3.6 to 4.2 percent seeking exemptions \u2014 about 155,000 students \u2014 extends a years-long erosion of childhood immunization rates as the country battles its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/07\/21\/us-measles-cases-hit-35-year-record-with-months-left-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/07\/21\/us-measles-cases-hit-35-year-record-with-months-left-2026\/\">worst measles resurgence <\/a>in 35 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The share of U.S. kindergartners with exemptions from school vaccine requirements for the 2025-2026 school year rose to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-817107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}