Vaccination rates among Maryland children for diseases like polio, mumps, measles and tetanus have rebounded since the pandemic and now are above the national average.
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found that vaccination rates among children around five years of age was about 97%.
That’s a turnaround from the 2020-2021 school year, when Maryland reported only 87% of kindergarten-age children receiving those shots.
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