Colorado public health officials have worked for years to increase immunization rates for school kids, with a particular concern about the percentage of kindergarteners who are not getting the measles vaccine. A few schools in Colorado have measles vaccination rates below 50%, though it’s impossible to know whether rates are actually that low or whether school districts do not have up-to-date records. The shots are covered by the federal government and are administered at pediatricians’ offices, public health agencies and school-based health centers. State public health officials are also reaching out directly to parents whose children are missing one or more vaccines, hitting them with four rounds of texts and emails. The state health department is also dispatching public health nurses to doctors’ offices in counties where the kindergarten immunization rate is lowest.

Source: Daily Sun August 14, 2023 10:08 UTC