Minnesota childhood vaccination rates decline amid parental hesitancy

Rising measles cases in Minnesota pose health risks to unvaccinated children and vulnerable populations.

In Minnesota, the quiet erosion of childhood vaccination rates has begun to reveal itself in a language older than statistics: children falling ill with a disease that science had nearly erased. Pediatricians across the state are navigating a new kind of conversation with parents—one shaped less by medical evidence than by fear, social media, and the strange amnesia that comes from living in a world where measles once seemed conquered. The rising case counts are not merely a public health metric; they are a reminder that collective immunity is a commons, and commons require collective tending.

Minnesota childhood vaccination rates decline amid parental hesitancy

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