Ohio schools struggle to get students vaccinated

Associated Press

DAYTOn

Schools in Ohio are struggling to get students vaccinated and keep track of those who are immunized.

The Dayton Daily News reports that 75 percent of Ohio elementary schools have failed to document every incoming kindergartener as vaccinated or exempt from vaccination by the state deadline this school year. At 158 schools, at least 30 percent of students started the 2016-17 school year without documentation of all needed shots.

Health officials say students who don’t receive shots put people who cannot be vaccinated in jeopardy.

The Daily News reports that some 60 percent of Ohio schools have been meeting the herd immunity level in the last three years. Herd immunity refers to the belief that the more people in a community who are immunized, the more protected the entire community is.