Survey: Parents Back Vaccines 3-to-1, Yet Coverage Rates Keep Falling

In a nation where three parents encourage vaccination for every one who discourages it, kindergarten measles protection has nonetheless quietly eroded — falling below the threshold communities need to prevent outbreaks. A survey of 1,315 American parents reveals that goodwill and action are not the same thing, and that the distance between what people say they believe and what the data records may be filled not with defiance, but with appointments missed, records lost, and systems that ask more than some families can give. The puzzle public health now faces is not one of persuasion, but of tra