Snohomish County healthcare providers are sounding the alarm as vaccine rates drop and measles cases tick up.
Vaccination rates have declined nationwide, paving the way for the highly-contagious measles to quickly gain a foothold in communities that no longer experience herd immunity. In Snohomish County, 92.4% of kindergarten students reported measles vaccination in the last school year, down from 94.2% in the 2019-20 school year, according to state public health data. Multiple schools in the Edmonds School District have also fallen below the threshold required to halt measles spread, according to data reported in the 2023-24 school year.
