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Board of Health warns of funding risk after Colorado adopts AAP immunization schedule
Summary
Public-health officials told the county Board of Health that changes in state immunization policy — Colorado adopting the American Academy of Pediatrics schedule — create a risk that federal immunization funding could be reduced or paused, which would affect county vaccine programs that rely on federal funds.
At the Board of Health meeting on Jan. 27, county public-health staff reported that although the local SAMHSA mental health grant for Northwest Colorado was not cut, state-level choices about childhood vaccine schedules have created uncertainty that could affect federal funding streams for immunization programs.
Public-health staff explained that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its childhood immunization schedule and that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has adopted the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) schedule following state…
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