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🗓️ 4 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Confidence in vaccines is clearly at an all-time low and they're digging their grave deeper and deeper. |
| 0:07.0 | They may have just killed pediatricians in the process. |
| 0:10.2 | This is what it's looking like in the news, though. |
| 0:12.5 | Childhood vaccination rate has dropped again as non-medical exemption spike. |
| 0:18.2 | Recent data shows vaccination rates are falling and cases of various illness are |
| 0:22.6 | climbing. A growing number of parents are opting out of childhood vaccines and health experts say it's |
| 0:28.1 | already having consequences. The CDC says 4.1% of kindergarteners, about 138,000 kids had a vaccine |
| 0:36.9 | exemption. |
| 0:38.0 | That out does last year's record high of 3.7%. |
| 0:41.6 | The CDC says exemptions increased in 40 states, with 14 states having exemptions above 5%. |
| 0:48.4 | Nearly all exemptions are listed as non-medical, meaning the children are skipping vaccines |
| 0:52.9 | for religious or other personal reasons. |
| 0:55.0 | You can see the trend increase for exemptions during COVID years. |
| 0:59.0 | Health officials want to reiterate that vaccines are safe. |
| 1:02.0 | We've seen that since COVID. People are questioning the safety of vaccines. |
| 1:08.0 | Vaccines have been studied for years and years and years. We want parents to understand that they're safe, that they're effective, |
| 1:14.6 | and you know, at the bottom line is just really to prevent disease. |
| 1:18.6 | We want kids to be able to stay in school and be healthy. |
| 1:22.6 | These rates are really disturbing. |
| 1:25.6 | Well, he's the author of Vax. Facts. |
| 1:29.3 | What to consider before vaccinating at all ages and all stages of life. |
| 1:33.3 | We've been tracking this guy's career over the last several years. |
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