No shots, no service: Pediatricians take tough stands while vaccination rates for young children in N.C. drop - North Carolina Health News
North Carolina’s vaccine coverage rate dropped to 70.9 percent in 2017, according to the most recent data collected for the CDC’s annual National Immunization Survey of toddlers 19 to 35 months old.
By Sarah Ovaska-Few Some pediatric practices around the state are sending a strong message to parents and guardians hesitant to vaccinate – immunize or find another doctor. That’s the tactic that Scott St. Clair and his colleagues at Boone’s Blue Ridge Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine took in early 2015 when announcing the practice would no […]