Tennessee's Department of Health recently released the annual immunization assessment for the 2024-2025 school year, and the numbers are less than favorable to some health officials. Dr. Stephen Miller with the Hamilton County Health Department says he’s seeing similar patterns across the board. “I never thought in my career I'd be a witness in this, but I have a feeling in the next few years we're going to see the rise of this,” Dr. Miller says. The Tennessee Department of Health reports that in all of Tennessee, nearly 93% were vaccinated, but that's still lower than the statewide goal of 95%. The number of counties that reached that threshold this year was less than half of what it was last year. "As we see the rates drop below 94%, we lose that herd immunity, and, esp

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