All medications and vaccines have potential risks that must be carefully weighed against the benefits that medications and vaccines offer to prevent illness. Vaccination is one of the most successful public health interventions in reducing disease spread, preventing complications and even deaths from vaccine preventable diseases. The success of vaccines in reducing disease should not suggest that vaccine preventable diseases are no longer a threat.

• SC Religious Exemption Rates - Last 5 School Years (2018-2022)
• SC Immunization Fact Sheet (2020 - 2022)
• School Vaccination Coverage and Exemption Data by County (2017-2021)