Apr 14, 2021
After a year of dealing with a global pandemic and as people are encouraged to get a COVID-19 vaccine when available, some other crucial vaccinations to protect the public apparently are getting overlooked.
State and national health officials earlier this week raised an ominous warning that vaccination rates for young children against illnesses such as measles, mumps, pertussis, chickenpox and more had dangerously dropped in many states, including Michigan, as parents postponed well-child visits due to the COVID-19 threat.
Vaccination rates for Michigan children ages 19 to 36 months have fallen below 70% in more than half of the state, or 42 of 83 counties, according to February data from the Michigan Care Improvement Registry. In six Michigan counties including Iron County in the Upper Peninsula and the City of Detroit, the rate has dropped below 60%.
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