Google claims data on low vaccination rates at its day care facilities are simply not up to date. But that doesn’t explain a year-after-year pattern at odds with the rest of its region.
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Yesterday, Wired published a scathing indictment of Silicon Valley: namely, that affluent tech moms and dads may be among those choosing not to vaccinate their kids.
Looking at 12 Bay Area tech companies and their associated day cares, Wired found that half of them had vaccination rates that were below average. Google's two day care centers were some of the worst.
At the other, only 77% were.
Google spokespeople claim that the unvaccinated kids at their two day care facilities were simply not up-to-date with their shots at the time these records were due to the California Department of Public Health in October. If data could be submitted now, they say — which it can't be, since it's only collected once a year — it would show a lot more well-vaccinated Google children.
The issue hinges on the fact that day cares can do what's called "conditional admissions" on kids who are behind on getting their shots. The day care can admit the kids on the condition that they'll presumably go get their shots even after the reporting is due. Google claims that their low numbers mostly reflect a lot of these kids slipping through the cracks — and that they have since gotten their shots taken care of.
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