Make Sure Your Kids Have Had all their Vaccines

For the first time in 10 years, New York has changed its requirements for immunizations—upping the number and schedule of doses for vaccines against some diseases.

Now students need 3-5 doses of polio vaccine—4 is recommended. For chicken pox—2 instead of 1.

Click here to find the New York State Immunization Requirements for School Entrance/Attendance 2014/15.

Discussing the new requirements, Dr. Peter Richel, Chief of Pediatrics at Northern Westchester Hospital, said In a post on the hospital’s blog, “If your child has received the required three polio vaccines in infancy, they must still receive one at the time of school entrance.”