WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — Local health experts are sounding the alarm amid decreased vaccination rates for preventable infectious diseases and a pair of measles cases detected in Washtenaw County,
“It’s safe to say the overall trend is declining in terms of people getting their routine vaccinations,” Susan Ringler-Cerniglia, public information officer for the Washtenaw County Health Department, said.
Several years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials were seeing vaccination rates ticking up in the county and across the state. But a drop in immunization rates began in the years leading up to 2020, and rates have continued to decline…