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Re:A Measles Case Hits Google's Silicon Valley Headquarters by grandmczeb on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:34PM (#19687362)
FWIW here was Google’s response in the linked article.

“The reported numbers for the current year are lower simply because many parents have not yet provided updated immunization records. We've asked them all to do this, so we can update the figures.”

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Re:A Measles Case Hits Google's Silicon Valley Headquarters by dx87 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:47PM (#19687429)
That sounds like corporate speak for "We don't know exactly how many children in our daycare aren't immunized, but we're going to assume that every child who hasn't provided us records is immunized since it gives us plausible deniability."
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Re:A Measles Case Hits Google's Silicon Valley Headquarters by redbluegreen on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:39PM (#19687382)
In four year it doesn't seem like they updated the figure...

Edit: I stand corrected, even if some parts of google are still quite low

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Re:A Measles Case Hits Google's Silicon Valley Headquarters by grandmczeb on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:50PM (#19687449)
In the article or in the DPH records? Wired did a follow-up the next year and found much higher vaccination rates[1]. Regardless, just based on the variance/number of adjustments, I'm not sure the DPH records are really a very accurate picture of the true vaccination rates.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/03/silicon-valley-daycares-still-...

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