Fewer San Diego County kindergarteners are getting their state-required childhood vaccinations each year, and their measles immunization rate places the county below herd immunity levels, county data for the last school year shows.

Childhood vaccination rates have received heightened attention in recent months, as the country grapples with its highest level of measles cases in 33 years, with total U.S. cases already up fivefold from last year.

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Meanwhile, public health professionals say they worry that the Trump administration — in particular Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — is sowing confusion and skepticism about vaccines. Among other efforts that would hinder access to them, his agency has recently suggested new obstacles for the childhood measles, mumps and r

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