Jennifer Stella and Colorado Coalition for Vaccine Choice posted: The media attacks are getting brutal. time/13297/vaccine-denial-can-kill/ and bloombergview/articles/2014-03-06/unvaccinated-kids-make-everyone-sick I hope you plan to take apart the bills Legislative declaration. (1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares: (a) Vaccines are considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the twentieth century, and save an estimated three million childrens lives every year; (b) Vaccines are cost-effective, and for every dollar we spend immunizing a child up to six years of age, more than $10 is saved in direct and indirect costs; (c) High rates of immunization coverage are necessary to prevent the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases; (d) Children who are not vaccinated are twenty-two to twenty-eight times more likely to get pertussis (whooping cough) than their immunized peers, and with Colorado pertussis cases at epidemic levels, high exemption rates can increase the risk of pertussis and other vaccine-preventable diseases within Colorado schools and communities; (e) Personal belief exemptions are the primary reason for exemption from recommended vaccines and account for over ninety -2- HB14-1288 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 percent of all exemptions for Colorado kindergartners from 2003-2012; (f) Colorado has one of the highest rates of personal belief exemption for immunizations in the United States, which translates to nearly three thousand kindergartners entering school unvaccinated against one or more vaccine-preventable diseases each year; (g) States with permissive or easy procedures for claiming personal belief exemptions have higher rates of vaccine-preventable diseases; states with policies that make it easy to exempt children from immunization were associated with a ninety percent higher incidence of whooping cough in 2011; and (h) A parents decision to...
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:31:32 +0000
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