CDPHE reported 954,919 PK-12 students were fully immunized in the previous academic year with a 92% compliance rate. Full immunization accounts for measures that protect against 16 vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, including measles, whooping cough, mumps, polio, and varicella (chickenpox), but not COVID-19.
Since the end of December, Colorado Springs’ free COVID-19 testing sites have been inundated with people exposed to or fearing infection from the Omicron variant that’s tearing through the city.
A Colorado mass vaccination site paused operations this week after 11 people experienced adverse reactions to the Covid-19 vaccine.
More than 1,700 people received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Wednesday at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, a soccer stadium where the state of Colorado and health care provider Centura Health operate a mass vaccination site. The 11 people reported feeling nauseous and dizzy after they were vaccinated, Colorado health officials said.
Two of the patients were transported to a hospital “out of an abundance of caution,” while the other nine were given juice and water to recover, according to a statement from the Colorado State Joint Information Center.
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