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US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows
Deterministic text analytics computed across all 4 sources. Frequency, entity overlap, and claim overlap — computed counts only. Nothing is rated true or false.
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Frequency Analytics
The most common words and exact phrases across every report in this cluster. Computed counts only.
Top words
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Top phrases
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Entity Overlap
Names detected in the report text: which appear across multiple sources, and which only one source mentions.
Across multiple sources
- Vaccination · 2 sources
Unique to one source
- Again · Ars Technica
- The Centers · Ars Technica
- Disease Control · Ars Technica
- School · CBS News
- It's · PBS NewsHour
- That’s · NBC Bay Area
- It’s · NBC Bay Area
- Exemptions · NBC Bay Area
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Claim Overlap
Near-identical sentences found in two or more reports, versus sentences that appear in only one. Text match only — nothing is rated true or false.
Repeated across sources
- "It's the fourth consecutive year that the national average exemption rate has reached a new record, and the vast majority are parents withholding shots for nonmedical reasons." · 2 sources
Appears once
- "Again, the CDC did not publish a full report and instead simply put the data online." · Ars Technica
- "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday released data on the vaccination rates of US kindergarteners in the 2025–2026 school year, revealing that rates have once again decreased from the previous school year." · Ars Technica
- "kindergarten vaccination rates have declined again, with exemptions reaching a record high for the 2025-2026 school year" · CBS News
- "kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Monday." · NBC Bay Area
- "The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 4.2%, up from 3.6% the year before." · NBC Bay Area