New York state has the second-highest kindergartner vaccination rate in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
While other states are seeing a spike in vaccine refusal, only 0.3% of the New York kindergartners who started school last fall were not vaccinated. Kindergartners must have a series of vaccines, protecting them from measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis.
So few kindergartners were unvaccinated that the state could count each one: there were 632 among those enrolled in public and private schools across New York state, including the city. California narrowly beat New York with just 492 unvaccinated kindergartners last year…