U.S. infant vaccination rates high, timeliness a concern: CDC

Immunization rates exceeded 90 percent for some vaccines, and fewer than 1 percent of infants received no vaccinations at all, the CDC said. Concerns remain, however, that children are not always getting their shots on time. One in 12 children was late receiving a first dose of the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), leaving them particularly vulnerable to measles, the CDC said. Most cases have been in patients who were either not vaccinated or did not know whether they had received the vaccine, the CDC said.



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