More Oklahoma children are entering kindergarten with exemptions from vaccines.

Baylor, 10, prefers to sing and dance everywhere she goes. She loves learning TikTok trends, playing basketball and hates summer break because it means she is away from her friends at school.

Baylor is also immunocompromised. She was diagnosed with acute liver failure at one and a half years old and received a transplant not long after. She takes immunosuppressant medication to prevent rejection and is unable to get certain vaccines , like her remaining MMR and chickenpox doses, because they use a weakened form of the germ that causes a disease.

Her mom, Alyssa Andrews, said navigating life as a transplant family has been hard for her social butterfly, who had to be a virtual student for over two years d

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