‘I question it myself’: South Dakota vaccination rates fall amid mistrust and misinformation • South Dakota Searchlight

‘I question it myself’: South Dakota vaccination rates fall amid mistrust and misinformation • South Dakota Searchlight

A nurse readies an MMR vaccine at Sanford Children's Hospital in Sioux Falls. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)Grant Vander Vorst is at the epicenter of vaccine hesitancy in South Dakota: Just 56% of incoming kindergartners in Faulk County, where he lives, were up to date on their measles, mumps and rubella vaccination during the 2023-24 school year, which was the lowest rate of any county in the state with available data. Vander Vorst is …