SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (KFVS) - Southern 7 Health Department is one of the latest groups to join a national movement led by grandparents.

Grandparents for Vaccines is a volunteer-led organization with the goal of changing the conversation around vaccines by passing down their knowledge and stories.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows childhood vaccine rates for measles have been dropping since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, since 2019, the number of kindergarteners vaccinated against polio and measles has dropped below the recommended level to maintain group immunity.

That decline is why co-founders Dr. Arthur Lavin, Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills launched Grandparents for Vaccines on September 7, which was als

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