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Jill Hunsaker Ryan, public health and environment department head, talks environmental...

John Herrick - December 27, 2019

Jill Hunsaker Ryan started her career in public health more than two decades ago. She worked on and off for the Colorado Department of...

2019 Colorado legislature

Colorado vaccine skeptics heartened by ‘pro-choice’ Jared Polis The state ranks...

Alex Burness - June 19, 2019

When Gov. Jared Polis told reporters last week that he’s “pro-choice” on vaccines, “that was music to my ears,” said Philip Silberman. Silberman, the leader...

Center Well

Police-powers let schools bar unvaccinated students, court says

Tessa Cheek - March 30, 2015

Students suffered a chickenpox outbreak in a New York school. Administrators forced unvaccinated kids to stay home. Anti-vaccination parents objected in court. In January,...

Health

Does Hickenlooper’s pro-vaccination ad inoculate him from inaction?

Staff Report - March 25, 2015

An unvaccinated infant rides in a grocery cart where she risks contracting whooping cough. She crawls through her day care nursery, a possible Petri...

Health

Hick on Vaccines: Strong statement, still no real plan

John Tomasic and Tessa Cheek - March 23, 2015

DENVER — Governor John Hickenlooper has recently made a strong case for the need to raise Colorado’s bottom-of-the-barrel vaccination rates, but he has fallen...