Nearly three-fourths of Americans say children who have not been vaccinated should not be allowed to go to school, in poll results released Wednesday.
Seventy percent of American voters believe school and child care facilities should be off limits to children who have not received standard vaccinations, according to a new Quinnipiac University Poll.
“American voters say 3-1, ‘No shots, no school,'” Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said.
There was virtually no gender or age gap in the poll.
The telephone-based survey of more than 1,200 voters was done Feb. 26-March 2 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.
More than 150 in several states nationwide have been infected with measles — a disease declared eliminated in 2000 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — due to a new anti-vaccination movement.
