Many kids across the state are said to be missing a critical step in their back-to-school process, with the state’s rate of vaccinations against all those childhood diseases said to be falling, now below recommended levels in two of Colorado’s biggest school districts…
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Becca Miles is an Arapahoe County Public Health nurse, who thought getting children inoculated would get easier, after the newest vaccine dramatically slowed the spread of COVID just a couple years ago…
230810 Nurse Becca Miles- not so much :08 Q:…not quite how it’s gone…
Instead, the state numbers show fewer Colorado parents are vaccinating their children. The worst drop, she says, is the measles, mumps, and rubella shot among kindergarteners…
230810 Nurse B Miles- need to improve :06 Q:…to get up…
Statewide, one in every 7 five-year-olds is not covered for measles. That’s said to be in part because parents claimed vaccine exemptions, for one in every 25 kindergarteners…
230810 Nurse B Miles- measles shot important :08 Q:…unbelievably contagious…
Denver and Aurora are a couple of the least-covered districts in Colorado. Both fall well below the recommended 95% measles vaccination rate. Becca hopes she and other public health nurses will be seen as trusted providers, because they’re willing to give families the correct information they need about vaccines.