A new study shows that a large portion of parents would pull their kids out of day care centers if they found out that other kids weren’t being vaccinated, or at least weren’t up-to-date.
Researchers at the University of Michigan conducted the nationwide survey of 614 parents with children ages 5 and under. The concerns expressed aren’t really unreasonable either, in terms of the probability that this could be an issue. According to the CDC, more than 30% of 2-year-olds are not up-to-date with vaccines.
“If your kid starts day care at 4 months old and is up-to-date, that’s fantastic,” said Sarah Clark, a research scientist with the University of Michigan’s Department of Pediatrics, who conducted the survey. “But in two months, there’s another set of vaccines due, and four months after that, there’s another set.”
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The study also found:
• Four in 10 parents support a day care policy that exclude under-vaccinated kids.
• Two-thirds said they want to be informed of the number of kids in their child’s day care who are not fully vaccinated.
• Only one-quarter of respondents said they want the names of the children who are not fully vaccinated.
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“That illustrates the sensitivity around not making this about a witch hunt against Johnny or Suzy. It’s more about giving parents the information to assess their own kid’s disease risk,” Clark said.
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