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   Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 06:25:45 JST Information Is Beautiful

   US childhood vaccination rates continue to drop. 95% → ~92%: Small numbers, big implications for public health 💉

   (source New York Times @nytimes)

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     Trebach (trebach@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 18:26:50 JST Trebach

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage Those vaccinations were required in order to enroll in kindergarden unless you had a doctor's note when I was young. What has changed to make the vaccination rate so low?
     @infobeautiful

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     Hilary (regordane@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 20:54:27 JST Hilary

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     @infobeautiful

     We should stop quoting the vaccinated rate and start quoting the unvaccinated rate.

     As in, the proportion of children unvaccinated has nearly doubled*, from 5% to 8%! Shock horror alarm.

     *In journalistic terms it's sort of ok to describe 8 as nearly twice 5.