The third component entails the bill I am introducing today. the SchoolBased Childhood Immunization Program Act. which. would fund up to 10 school districts to establish the neighborhood school as the family friendly vaccination spot and would use school nurses to coordinate the communitys immunization program. Most States now require that all children be immunized in order to attend school. This has resulted in nearly universal immunization among schoolage children. There are growing pockets of children however. whom we missmigrant children. Immigrant children. and a growing number of homeless children in urban. as well as rural and suburban communities. who are In school without full or adequate immunization. The largest group of children at risk of contracting preventable childhood illness. such as measles. mumps. and whooping cough. are infants and preschool children. Three out of ten 2yearolds are not adequately immunized.
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