{"id":9595,"date":"2025-06-03T20:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9595"},"modified":"2025-06-03T20:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:37:36","slug":"measles-vaccination-rates-in-children-have-declined-in-most-u-s-counties-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/03\/measles-vaccination-rates-in-children-have-declined-in-most-u-s-counties-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles vaccination rates in children have declined in most U.S. counties, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/measles-vaccination-rates-us-counties-study\/\">CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid a widespread decline in childhood&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/measles-outbreak-us-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"measles, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">measles<\/a>&nbsp;vaccination rates since before the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2834892\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"study, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>&nbsp;published Monday found that coverage can vary substantially within a state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at county-level data in 33 states, researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccination rate decreased from 93.92% in the 2017-2018 school year to 91.26% in the 2023-2024 school year. Other states were not included because they had missing vaccination data, the authors of the study said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 2,066 counties the study looked at, 78% saw a decline in vaccination rates. Only four of the 33 states \u2014 California, Connecticut, Maine and New York \u2014 saw an increase in the average county-level vaccination rate, the study found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/measles-vaccination-rates-us-counties-study\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News Amid a widespread decline in childhood&nbsp;measles&nbsp;vaccination rates since before the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States, a&nbsp;study&nbsp;published Monday found that coverage can vary substantially within a state. Looking at county-level data in 33 states, researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccination rate decreased from 93.92% in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9596,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions\/9596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}