Key Points

• Continued increase in vaccination rates among infants born on or after January 1, 2018, for whom the expanded vaccination requirement applies:

  • +3.7 percentage points for the use of the hexavalent vaccine

  • +0.6 percentage points for vaccination coverage of the first dose of the pneumococcal vaccine

  • + 11.5 percentage points in vaccination coverage for the first dose of the meningococcal C vaccine

• Increase in vaccination coverage among children born before the law took effect

  • + 5.6 percentage points in vaccination coverage for the first dose of the HPV vaccine among 15-year-old girls born in 2005 compared to those born in 2004

  • Increase in catch-up vaccination coverage for meningococcal C vaccine across all age groups

• Increase in influenza vaccination coverage

  • +6.7 percentage points in vaccination coverage among people aged 65 and older