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When it comes to vaccinating our kids and getting our flu shots, Wyoming is one of the worst in the nation at doing so, according to a report released Tuesday.

When it comes to vaccinating our kids and getting our flu shots, Wyoming is one of the worst in the nation at doing so, according to a report released Tuesday.

Agents that we thought were in our history, of them coming back to our country. and what it says to me as a pediatrician and a parent is it's so important to ensure that our children are vaccinated fully and on time, so that if and when things like polio are reintroduced to our country, our children are safe and protected. there are a lot of children out there who are not fully vaccinated. >> cnn medical analyst dr. leana wen joins me now with more. dr. wen, this is very troubling. that's probably an understatement to some degree. how much of it, how much of the vaccine rates, how much is poli...

Doesn't spread. >> if we can go back to having very, very high standards with regard to making sure that people are vaccinated and making sure that the immunization rates are better, that's our best method of protection. >> reporter: officials the rockland county have opened vaccination clinics to make getting a vaccine easier, but, nancy, it's not just a problem here, london has also detected polio in waste water and officials are encouraging about 1 million children there to get abooster. >> cordes: a vaccine that has been safe and effective for decades. elaine quijano, thank you. back here ...

Immunization rates have decreased by 13% in 2021 when compared to pre-pandemic level