For most generations of American families, vaccinating their children has been something to check off their back-to-school to-do list. According to a new survey released Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 35% of parents now oppose the requirement that their children receive routine vaccinations to go to school.
All states and the District of Columbia require vaccination against measles, mumps, rubella, and other highly contagious and potentially fatal childhood diseases. (In most cases, some limited exemptions are granted.)
During the pandemic, the Kaiser Foundation, a nonpartisan healthcare research organization, has published monthly reports on changes in attitudes toward Covid vaccines. Polls show growing political divisions on the issue, with the latest poll showing that divisions now extend to routine immunizations for children.
A recent survey found that 44% of adults who are or are Republican voters say parents should have the right to opt out of mandatory vaccinations in schools, pew 2019. That's up from 20% in a poll the think tank did before the pandemic hit. In contrast, 88% of adults who identify with or lean toward Democrats support the need for childhood vaccines, up slightly from 86% in 2019. Here I am.
We know that many children were not vaccinated during the pandemic. Therefore, now is not the time to consider repealing these laws.
The latest survey, based on interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1,259 adults, was conducted as of November 20. 29 to 8 December.
The latest Covid booster shot, a "bivalent" shot that targets both the original coronavirus and an Omicron variant, has been available since September. Only 4 in 10 adults said they had or plan to have a booster dose. Nearly one in four people over 65, the age group most at risk, said they were too busy or didn't have time to get one.
Even among adults previously vaccinated against Covid, the survey found that more than 4 in 10 feel they do not need this latest vaccine.
Only about a third of respondents said they were personally afraid of getting severely ill from Covid, while half expressed general concern about rising rates of Covid this winter. About two-thirds of black and Latinx adults were concerned about rates of infection with COVID-19, compared with four in 10 white adults.
The survey found that nearly half of parents said this winter, Covid-19, influenza, RS are signs
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