Oregon has the nation’s third-highest opt-out rate, leaving more than 50,000 children vulnerable to serious disease.
By Khushboo Rathore
Oregon Journalism Project
Oregon’s already low kindergarten vaccination rates may worsen after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month stopped recommending the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
Public health experts decried the controversial decision, which overturned 30 years of guidance that cut rates of liver disease and cirrhosis.
Oregon is part of a…