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The proportion of kindergartners nationwide who completed their measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine series dropped from about 95% — the federal coverage target — before the pandemic to less than 93% last school year.

“That’s Mr. Darly,” the kindergartner replied, naming the security escort who’s been a presence, looking out for the Democratic congressman, his wife and their three small children, for roughly her entire life.

In the U.S., most states now are below the 95% vaccination threshold for kindergartners — the level needed to protect communities against measles outbreaks.

The route he took Jan. 25 was the same one he used each morning when he’d walk his kindergartner son to Odyssey Charter School.

Aguirre explained that his kindergartner sometimes wears a mask because she doesn’t like the smells, and because her parents fear she might inhale a cloud of fentanyl smoke.