Making It Better School Year Soon: Getting Shots Now

FILE – A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans’ Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. On Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that 7.5% of outpatient medical visits the previous week were due to flu-like illnesses. That’s as high as the peak of the 2017-18 flu season and higher than any season since. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – With the new school year beginning in just a few weeks, Ohio’s chief health official wants parents to make sure their kids are protected against ten different diseases.

They can do that by getting vaccinated in a timely manner.

Director of the state’s health department Dr Bruce Vanderhoff says immunization rates were up for the ’22-’23 school year.

But 10-percent of kindergarten children were still missing at least one dose of a necessary vaccine.

Dr Vanderhoff says a 25-year-old study lining vaccines with autism has been debunked.