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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn’t this area have really good vaccination rates?[/quote]

ABC News recently published a map where you can search the measles risk (based on vaccination rates) for your zip code: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/new-map-shows-spot-measles-risk-level-zip/story?id=129179712.

In my DC zip code, only 70-79% of children ages 0-5 are vaccinated. East of the river, rates drop to less than 60% vaccinated in Ward 7 and 60-69% vaccinated in Ward 8. Children ride transit, attend daycares, and go to school all over, so these low rates are sufficient that we could get breakthrough infections in the vaccinated if we have a local outbreak of measles. The vaccination rates are lower than they should be, even in educated, affluent suburbs. Potomac, MD has an 80-84% vax rate. Not far away in zip code 20877, rates drop to 70-79%. In Fairfax, zip code 22041 has a rate of 60-69 percent for MMR in young children. Within 35-80 miles of DC in parts of Fauquier rates drop below 79 percent, and Rappahannock County, rates drop below 69 percent in a number of zip codes. On county-wide and state-wide measures, this region is doing better than some other parts of the country, but we have plenty of pockets with very low vaccination rates.
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I think you have to take into account that 20% of kids 0-5 are 0, and thus unable to get the measles vaccine, so 79% is about as low as you can get.[/quote]

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