Pediatrician Charles Goodman vaccinates 1 year- old Cameron Fierro with the measles-mumps-rubella, or MMR, vaccine in 2015 at his practice in Northridge, Calif..
Colorado’s low childhood vaccination rate worries Gov. Jared Polis. He told us this week he’s “elevating” the issue. But he also said he’s wary of any moves by the legislature to make vaccination exemptions harder to come by.
“The minute you try to have the government forcing anybody to do something with their kids, you’re going to create distrust of vaccinations, which is already a problem,” he said. “We want to go the other way.”
The issue is important because immunizations are a price of entry into a state’s public education system – to prevent the spread of disease.
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