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It is 97% effective if children get both doses. i believe it's 93% efficacy rate if you just have one dose. how worrisome is it for those children, like those who were hospitalized who had not been vaccinated? >> yeah. you're absolutely correct about the effectiveness of the mmr vaccine. it's one of the safest and most effective vaccines we have, and almost 50% of our cases have been hospitalized which is a very high percentage. cdc estimates that individuals who get measles, about 25% will get hospitalized. we've seen a much higher rate of hospitalization here in our community. that's likely ...