Kindergarten Vaccine Opt-Outs Hit a Record High @WnycOrg
Kindergarten Vaccine Opt-Outs Hit a Record High  @WnycOrg
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent, KFF Health News and host of the What the Health? podcast, talks about new CDC data showing kindergartner vaccine exemptions at a record high, and the bipartisan doubts about Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump's nominee to lead the FDA.



Photo: As eight-year-old girl receives a polio vaccine, she watches a closed circuit television broadcast (showing Dr Jonas Salk as he inoculates a boy) of a training telecast for physicians and scientists, New York, New York, April 12, 1955. (PhotoQuest/Getty Images)



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