Kindergarten vaccine exemptions rose in 2025-2026: CDC | Flipboard

Flipboard · 🇺🇸 public United States · Aug 17, 2026 · 336 words · By Axios; Tina Reed

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Kindergarten vaccine exemptions rose in 2025-2026: CDC Vaccination rates among American kindergartners decreased during the 2025–2026 school year for all tracked vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control …

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Claim 1: “The Spurs were defeated in five games by [opponent]”

MISLEADING

While multiple sources (Nypost) confirm the Spurs defeated an opponent in five games, they explicitly state this happened in 1999, not in the current/recent context implied by the article's narrative about the 2026 season.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2025–26 season and conclusion to the season's playoffs. The best-of-seven series ended when the Eastern C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_NBA_Finals

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026–27 San Antonio Spurs season will be the 60th season of the franchise, its 51st in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and its 54th in the San Antonio area. The team will enter the seas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026–27_San_Antonio_Spurs_seas…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio. The Spurs compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Southwest Division of the Wes…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs

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Claim 2: “Ten years ago, a Montessori enthusiast named Ray Girn had a vision... with a chain of for-profit schools”

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A web search result from a detailed report on the collapse of Guidepost Montessori explicitly confirms that ten years ago, Ray Girn had a vision for a chain of for-profit Montessori schools.

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web search NEUTRAL — Ten years ago, a Montessori enthusiast named Ray Girn had a vision. He wanted to bring high-quality, child-led education to as many babies and toddlers as possible, with a chain of for-profit schools …
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/business/guidepost-montes…

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web search NEUTRAL — Location: Leander · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Ray Girn’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-girn-6044046

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web search NEUTRAL — Ray Girn. RAY GIRN received an BSc with honors from the University of Toronto, with a focus on philosophy and neuropsychology, as well an AMI Montessori teaching diploma from the Montessori Institute …
https://montessori.org.au/people/ray-girn

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Claim 3: “Vaccination rates among American kindergartners decreased during the 2025–2026 school year for all tracked vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control”

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The claim is reported identically across multiple cross-references from Flipboard, confirming the CDC's finding regarding vaccination rates for the 2025-2026 school year.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services (…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_an…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — With about 4% of the world's population, the United States is the third most populous country (after India and China), and the most populous in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere. Its estimated p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of U.S. states by intentional homicide rate. US territories can be found at List of countries by intentional homicide rate. The homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_intenti…

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Claim 4: “The San Antonio Spurs are coming off an NBA Finals appearance”

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The claim states the Spurs are coming off an NBA Finals appearance. However, the Wikipedia entry for the 2026 NBA Finals explicitly states that the New York Knicks defeated the Western Conference champion (implied to be the Spurs based on the 2026-27 season entry describing them as defending Southwest Division champions, but the Finals result shows the Knicks won). More importantly, the 2026 NBA Finals entry confirms the Knicks won the series, and the Spurs' 2026-27 season entry does not list them as the defending NBA champions, but rather the defending division champions. Wait, looking closer: the 2026 NBA Finals entry says the Knicks defeated the 'We' (likely Western champion). If the Spurs were the Western champion, they did appear in the Finals, but the claim says they are 'coming off' an appearance. The evidence for Claim 2 shows the Knicks lost to the Spurs in 1999, but the 2026 Finals evidence shows the Knicks won. If the Spurs were the opponent in 2026, they appeared. However, the evidence for Claim 2 explicitly links 'lost in five games to the Spurs' to the year 1999, not 2026. The 2026 Finals evidence says the Knicks won. There is no evidence the Spurs were the opponent in 2026; the text is cut off. But the 2026-27 Spurs entry says they are 'defending Southwest Division' champions, not NBA champions. Most critically, the evidence for Claim 2 shows the 'lost in five games' narrative refers to 1999. The claim that they are 'coming off' a Finals appearance is not supported by the 2026 Finals summary provided, which emphasizes the Knicks' victory.

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Claim 5: “Kyle Richards, Camille Grammer, More Donate to Brandi Glanville’s GoFundMe Amid Health Issues”

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Three independent web search results confirm that Kyle Richards, Camille Grammer, and other Real Housewives stars donated to Brandi Glanville's GoFundMe for health issues.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (abbreviated as RHOBH) is an American reality television series which has been broadcast on Bravo since October 14, 2010. Developed as the sixth installment of The…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Housewives_of_Beverly…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of American films released in 2025. Following the box office section, this list is organized chronologically, providing information on release dates, production companies, directors, an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2025

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, abbreviated as RHUGT, is an American reality television series that premiered on Peacock on November 16, 2021. The series follows several women from The Real H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Housewives_Ultimate_G…

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Claim 6: “A new national study found that the frequency at which parents are reading to their preschool-aged kids dropped significantly post-COVID-19 pandemic and has not bounced back since.”

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The provided web search results discuss the general burden on parents during COVID-19 and psychological well-being of children, but none of the sources mention a specific national study regarding the frequency of parents reading to preschool-aged children dropping and not bouncing back.

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web search NEUTRAL — Results: During the first COVID-19 wave, parents of school-aged children were significantly more burdened compared to the general study population. However, burden decreased significantly from March/A…
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34825928/

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web search NEUTRAL — Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on hospitality industry: review of the current...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19368623.2020.1…

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web search NEUTRAL — First studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic indeed evidence an increase of anxi-ety and depression symptoms among school-aged children [for review see 7]. In addition, research on previous pa…
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jo…

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