Vaccination Coverage and Exemptions among Kindergartners
Report from CDC Indicates Increasing Numbers of Parents Filing Exemptions
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
The rising rates of allergic and neuropsychiatric illnesses among children today is prompting more parents to delay or opt out of childhood vaccines for their children. The COVID-19 vaccine debacle has awoken the country to potential hazards of vaccines. On July 31, 2025 the US CDC filed this report.
During the 2024-2025 school year, exemptions from one or more vaccines among kindergartners in the U.S. increased to 3.6% from 3.3% the year before.
Exemptions increased in 36 states and DC, with 17 states reporting exemptions exceeding 5%.
The number of kindergartners exempt from one or more vaccines was about 138,000 during the 2024-2025 school year
Parents should understand they are not alone and that concerns over vaccine safety are legitimate. Organizations such as ICAN, Children’s Health Defense, and the McCullough Foundation are making meaningful progress. A one size fits all approach to childhood vaccination is being rejected by increasing proportions of the population. Going forward the medical necessity, clinical indication, risks, and theoretical benefits must come into the calculus for childhood vaccination.
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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
President, McCullough Foundation
They all should! And cause a Revolution against Poisoning people, especially Children! Ignorance is not a defense for the Abusers anymore!
Thank God for the advancements in this area! The "recommendations" for these 72 doses of poison from birth to age 18 has already destroy many in one generation of children. Doctors who shoot infants with 6 vaccines the minute the enter the world are no better than those who assault and hurt people on the streets of a big city. In any cases, they are murdering these infants. Who on earth thought this was a good idea in the first place???
I've had exactly 2 vaccines in my entire life -- a smallpox in 1953 before entering first grade, and a polio vax on a sugar cube in 1957. No vaccines for anything since then and I've lived a healthy life. Fortunately my children had doctors (regular GPs) who told me when to give them the measles vaccine (at age 2 or 3 "after their immune systems had a chance to develop"). They never had another one after that. So what has happened to the illness-care system since then? Oh, yes, they need more illness to care for -- more money! Time to call a halt to this!
I've always said that nothing is all good, and nothing's all bad. Out of something that appears to be "bad," some very good things can come, and we're seeing it now as more and more parents are learning of the great harms of giving any child 72 vaccines! Not the mention the children we read about who "missed" their "well baby" check up and were given "catch up" jabs of 12 or more vaccines!! Some died, many will be disabled for the rest of their lives. But, I guess that's just more patients from which the illness-care industry to make money!