In 2022, the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature passed a bill barring the COVID-19 vaccine, for any variant, from ever being required for school attendance. Gov.

A newly configured federal vaccine panel's June 25 action is expected to improve options to protect infants from potentially ...

The percentage of Arizona parents choosing to opt their kindergarten children out of one or more vaccines through non-medical "personal belief" exemptions increased again this school year from 8.1 ...

The vaccine with the lowest uptake for Arizona kindergarten students is consistently MMR − measles, mumps and rubella. Measles is a highly contagious, potentially fatal airborne virus that can affect ...

During the last school year, the most recent data available, only 90.6% of Arizona kindergartners got the MMR vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella, said Don Herrington, interim director of ...

However, recently, all vaccination rates have slightly declined,” said an Arizona Department of Health Services spokesperson to Arizona’s Family, who encouraged the MMR vaccine.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, said in an interview Tuesday that he encourages people to get vaccinated against measles after an outbreak has killed ...

Most of Arizona State University’s Tempe campus is in this ZIP code. Of note: At Scales Technology Academy, 12% of kindergartners were exempted from receiving the MMR vaccine.

According to Arizona Department of Health Services data, 88.1% of the state’s kindergarten students had two doses of the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) in the 2023-24 school year.

“You want to get the vaccine — it’s America, a free country.” he told Arizona legislators last year after laying out his concerns about the vaccines for polio and other illnesses.

In 2021, Trump called the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines “one of the greatest miracles of the ages”—one from which he has since distanced himself. A vaccine-skeptic in the administration ...

In Arizona, students entering kindergarten are required to have vaccines for polio, hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), DTaP, DTP or DT (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis), MMR (measles, mumps and ...