Only 54% of Wallace kids immunized

Child immunization rates are low in the silver mining community of Wallace , and school district superintendent Bob Ranells is well aware of it. There is no simple, single explanation. School nurses are expected to manually load data for every individual student — and, as Ranells puts it, nurses went into their profession to help people, not to sit in front of a computer. Other forces are at work. “Our people aren’t the greatest fans of government in this neck of the woods,” Ranells said. The bottom line: Only 54 percent of Wallace’s kindergartners, first-graders and seventh-graders were considered “adequately immunized,” according to 2014 Department of Health and Welfare records. Only four of Idaho’s 115 school districts had a lower rate/ Kevin Richert , Idaho Education News. More here .