Re: Colorado debate flares again over immunizations, Feb. 27 news story.
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Colorado s alarming low vaccination rate for children is not new. There are many parents who, for whatever rationale, believe historically proven disease prevention practices are not sufficient cause for their children to be vaccinated. I suggest that doctors should refuse to accept or see children who do not have their full complement of age-appropriate vaccinations. These vulnerable children pose a health risk to others when visiting the doctor s offices — i.e., they bring a contagion into close proximity to other patients.
I wish school districts would refuse students who are unvaccinated and pose a health risk to the students of parents who believe in the health value of vaccinations.
Martin Allen, Centennial
This letter was published in the March 3 edition.Your article noted that Republicans in the legislature are blocking a bill to centralize state vaccination data. Here s the truth at the core of our problem: Colorado has the lowest vaccination rate for kindergartners in the country, and that rate is the result of bipartisan actions. The bill simply aims to put the pathetic truth into a state database.
Republican legislators have spewed religious beliefs arguments. And liberals — whether Democrats or the Green Party — battle logic just as vehemently. Pockets of very low vaccination rates in the state, such as Boulder, are home to the organic-food crowd who think breast milk is as effective as MMR vaccine.
The slippery-slope argument against the bill is conservative legislators playing into the hands of some liberal voters. Let s slide down the slope and mandate vaccination for all but immuno-compromised children. They can t get vaccinated and we have a responsibility to help protect them.
Maryann Karinch, Estes Park
This letter was published in the March 3 edition.
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