Colorado continues to rank at the bottom of immunization coverage rates in the United States. For the 2018-2019 school year, Colorado’s kindergarten coverage rate for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine was 87.4%, a 1.3% decrease from the previous…
The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) is responsible for providing education to parents who choose to exempt their child(ren) from school required immunizations. ADHS will be conducting a pilot project for the 2019-2020 school year designed to provide this…
To help schools comply with state legislation, and to reduce de-duplicate of vaccination records into School Information Systems (SIS) and Indiana's Immunization Registry (known as CHIRP), the Indiana Immunization Program offered $25,000 grants to several SIS vendors to create a…
[2018 Bull’s-Eye Award Winner!] While many states have state laws or regents’ policies requiring prematriculation immunization requirements, Washington state has no such policy in place. Despite the 2004 Washington law requiring dissemination of information about meningococcal disease and vaccination, only…
The Minnesota Department of Health conducted outbreak activities and extended community interventions during their measles outbreak that began in April of 2017. Most of the cases were within the Somali-Minnesotan community and could have been attributed to declines in MMR…