Look up immunization rates at your neighborhood school and in King County

January 12, 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

Children wearing backpacks, running and smiling in front of a school

What percentage of children in your child’s school are vaccinated against measles? How does your school district compare to others in King County? How have student immunization rates changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? Find this and more on Public Health’s School Immunizations Data Dashboard, recently updated to include data for the 2021-22 school year.

Free clinics to check immunizations off your back-to-school list

August 9, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

This year, it’s easier than ever to get caught up on vaccines at one of many back-to-school clinics in south King County.

Roll Down Your Window, Roll Up Your Sleeve: Free Drive-Thru Vaccination Clinics and More Vaccination Opportunities

September 24, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

There’s never been a more important time to make sure you and the people you love are protected from disease. Especially as flu season approaches, keeping up to date on vaccinations is one of the best ways you can stay safe, healthy, and far from the hospital during the COVID pandemic. And now you can get vaccinated without having to step out of your car!

Our childcare providers are superheroes: From a parent in Public Health

March 22, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

When my son was just a month old — still pocket-sized and brand new to the world — I faced the decision that so many new parents dread: who would take care of him when I went back to work? I wasn’t ready to hand him over to anyone else, and wondered if I’d ever […]

Unraveling the myth of MMR and autism

September 9, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

More than eight months into the nation’s largest measles outbreak in decades, there’s a lot of misinformation circulating about the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR). To help you figure out what’s fact and what’s fiction, we put together simple answers to some common questions about MMR. Download the complete, printable infographic here. For more […]