Public Health Reports: Provisional Entrants, Exemptions, and Kindergarteners Up-to-Date on Vaccination Before and After a Regulatory Change in Pennsylvania, 2015-2019

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A new Public Health Reports study describes the effects of Pennsylvania’s changing school entry-vaccination policies after cutting the grace period for “provisional entrants,” students without medical or nonmedical vaccination exemptions, from eight months to five