Health data say Glendale Unified kindergarten students are generally well vaccinated
Monday, July 22, 2019Newly released data from the California Department of Public Health list 17 kindergarten programs in Glendale Unified’s 20 elementary schools as safe in terms of preventing an outbreak of vaccine-preventable diseases .
District officials claim three additional schools labeled as “vulnerable” reached the safe status by winter.
Information for the just-concluded school year, available at shotsforschool.org, is broken into four categories.
Kindergarten programs with 95% to 100% all-required-vaccination, or ARV, rates, which the World Health Organization says is necessary to maintain “herd” immunity — which means a student who, for whatever reason, cannot be immunized is still safe because all of the other students are vaccinated for diseases such as measles — are designated in the best or “safest” category.
https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/story/2019-07-18/health-data-says-glendale-unified-kindergartens-are-generally-well-vaccinated