Jackyenjoyphotography/Moment/Getty ImagesTraditionally, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) release vaccination rates for last year’s kindergarteners in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, its chief publication. But this week, in a perhaps unsurprising break with tradition, the agency — under the auspices of noted vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy — the data was quietly released online, with no fanfare. Moreover, the statistics reveal that vaccine exemption rates for 2024-2025 kindergarteners rose to an all-time high — more than 4% on average, though that number varies wildly...

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