Vaccination Coverage with Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2018–19 School Year

Potentially achievable coverage is estimated as the sum of the percentage of students with up-to-date MMR and the percentage of students without up-to-date MMR and without a vaccine exemption.† The exemptions used to calculate the potential increase in MMR coverage for Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming are the number of children with exemptions specifically for MMR vaccine.For all other states, numbers are based on an exemption to any vaccine.§ Alaska and the Disctrict of Columbia did not report kindergarten vaccination coverage for the 2018-19 school year and are excluded from this analysis.MMWR / October 18, 2019 / Vol.68 / No. 41 US Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention