[Buckeye McFrog]

So, the WaPo is celebrating the use of naked government force. What else is new?

[Alberta's Child]

It’s worth noting that dealing with communicable diseases is one of the few legitimate roles of government in health care.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Article fails to comment on one important point. It doesn’t discuss vaccine complication rates in Mississippi. Given the nature of the anti-vaccination crowd and given the compost as a source it is probable they couldn’t find even allegations of any and chose not to report the lack!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

As we used to say in Arkansas, “Thank God for Mississippi!” as Mississippi always kept Arkansas off the bottom of the list of “worst” states.

Now Mississippi is top in something.

[BwanaNdege]

It appears that the WaPo is not above a little snarky racism! (to give them the benefit of the doubt, this may be nothing more that Yankee superiority manifesting itself.)

Mississippi – yes, Mississippi – has the nation’s best child vaccination rate.

Rank	State	African-American Alone
Population (2010)[1]	% African-American
1	Mississippi	1,074,200	37.30%
2	Louisiana	1,452,396	31.98%
3	Georgia	2,950,435	30.02%
4	Maryland	1,700,298	29.44%
5	South Carolina	1,290,684	28.48%
6	Alabama	1,251,311	26.38%
7	North Carolina	2,048,628	21.60%
8	Delaware	191,814	20.95%
9	Virginia	1,551,399	19.91%
10	Tennessee	1,055,689	16.78%

[onyx]

1st in something!
Magnolia State PING!

[ifinnegan]

Less liberal lunatics in MS.

[AppyPappy]

Bottom line: It’s free and you can lose Welfare benefits if you don’t have one (or they think so anyway)

[oincobx]

This is interesting because Mississippi also has one or the lowest rates of autism.