Vaccination rates among the toddlers of the country have fallen again, with coverage of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination that falls from 92.7 percent in the 2023-2024 school year to 92.5 percent in 2024-2025. The percentage changes are small across the board, but they represent thousands of children and a constant downward trend that makes the country more vulnerable for outbreaks.
In the last school year, an estimated 286,000 young children were not fully protected against measles. At the same time, the country has seen countless explosive outbreaks of measles, with Casus counts in 2025 that have been higher than any other year since the highly contagious disease was explained in 2000. In fact, the number of case is at a highest point of 33 years.
The newest small decline is one in a series that erodes the capacity of the nation to keep passing infectious diseases at bay. In the 2019-2020 school year, 95 percent of kindergarten was protected against measles and other serious teething problems, such as Polio. This 95 percent coverage is the target that according to health experts prevents a infectious disease from spreading in a community. But vaccination rates fell in the midst of the pandemie, fell to 93.9 percent mmr coverage in the year 2020-2021 and were crossed down.
Anti-vaccine era
At the height of the Pandemie, some slippery queues can be accused of disturbed access. But anti-vaccine sentiments and wrong information clearly play a major role because vaccination continues to fall and access has largely resumed. For the 2024–2025 school year, non -medical exemptions for vaccinations in children again reached a new high. These are exemptions that are powered by ideology and have risen with the influence of anti-vaccine votes, including the current secretary of health care and lawyer of Fervente Anti-vaccine Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
