Immunize Colorado has compiled a snapshot of state-level facts and figures as a quick reference tool offering insight into Colorado’s immunization coverage, disease risk and burden, vaccination policy, and resources and suggestions for acting to improve immunization access and coverage rates. This comprehensive overview highlights key data related to immunization, exemption and compliance rates, as well as the burden and costs associated with various vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) experienced in our state. Please feel free to share this among your colleagues, parents, patients and the community as a reminder of the importance of maintaining high vaccination rates to prevent serious and costly disease.

View the 2019 Immunization in Colorado One-Pager

This resource pulls together data from the following sources:

• Vaccination Coverage by Age 24 Months Among Children Born in 2015 and 2016—National Immunization Survey-Child, United States, 2016-2018
• Vaccination Coverage with Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates among Children in Kindergarten, United States, 2018-19 School Year
• CDC National Immunization Survey-Adolescents, 13-17 Years
• CDPHE School and Child Care Immunization Data 2018-2019
• CDPHE Colorado Immunization Information System County-Level Immunization Rate Maps
• CDPHE Influenza Surveillance Summary Report, Colorado 2018-19
• States with Religious and Philosophical Exemptions from School Immunization Requirements, 2019
• Colorado Hepatitis A Outbreak Report
• Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Colorado’s Children Report-February 2019, Volume 1
• Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Colorado’s Children Report-September 2019, Volume 2
• CDC Measles Cases in 2019
• Public Health Economic Burden Associated with Two Single Measles Case Investigations—Colorado, 2016-2017
• CDC Vital Signs: Burden and Prevention of Influenza and Pertussis Among Pregnant Women and Infants—United States