According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, parents opted out of vaccines for Louisiana’s kindergartners at the highest rate in at least a decade. Only about 0.1% of those were due to medical reasons. Is this a result of the Covid pandemic? And will this trend continue? Newell brings on Charles Stoecker, a Tulane University Health Economist who studies vaccine policy to answer those questions.

<p>According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, parents opted out of vaccines for Louisiana’s kindergartners at the highest rate in at least a decade. Only about 0.1% of those were due to medical reasons. Is this a result of the Covid pandemic? And will this trend continue? Newell brings on Charles Stoecker, a Tulane University Health Economist who studies vaccine policy to answer those questions.</p>

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