PDG Bill Downes and Nan Jarvis (Maternal & Child Health Chair) hosted a table at this event put on by the Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition on October 12 at the History Colorado Center. DG Abbas Rajabi, PDG Peter and Mary Jean Ewing, PDG Mary Kay Hasz, PDG Dan Himelspach, Dave & Candice Talbot (Crutches4Africa), and CU student Hailey Davis joined Bill and Nan in support of CCIC, whose mission is to protect Colorado children and communities from vaccine-preventable illness.
Worldwide, vaccines save an estimated 2.5 million children's lives every year. In 2015, 472 Colorado children were hospitalized with vaccine-preventable diseases. Also in 2015, charges to treat vaccine-preventable disease in Colorado children totaled more than $35 million. Among children in Colorado who were hospitalized for vaccine-preventable disease, 66.5 percent were four years of age or younger. Please go to www.childrensimmunization.org for information or contact Nan Jarvis, 303-242-2615, johnnan@comcast.net.