Governor Jared Polis thinks the new requirements would make it too difficult for some parents to exempt children from vaccinations. Supporters say that's the point.
Amid quarantines and increased reports of measles outbreaks in parts of the country, a bill in Colorado intended to boost vaccination rates in children is at the center of a political standoff between the state's governor, lawmakers, and public health advocates.
“Of course we don’t support things like requiring anyone to go in person and things like that,” Polis said, per Colorado Public Radio, at a Wednesday town hall in Wheat Ridge, a suburb of Denver. “There’s still of course some changes that are going to be made to the bill," he added. “We made a lot of compromises,” Mullica told the Post, arguing that removing the filing requirement "kind of keeps us at status quo and doesn’t accomplish the goal of formalizing that process."
However, physicians and public health advocates argue that vaccination is not a matter of philosophy; it's a matter of stopping potentially deadly diseases from spreading. “A lot of what is going on now, is, what a lot of people call convenience exemptions,” O’Leary told the radio station. “So right now in Colorado, if a child was going to school, and they're not up to date on their vaccinations, they can simply sign a form. They may not be against vaccinations. It's just easier to sign a form than to go into the doctor's office.”
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