After two unvaccinated students at a Colorado high school were reported to have measles, the Boulder Valley School District says out of 1,669 students at Broomfield High School, 26 are on their exclusion list and not allowed to attend class.
The Boulder Valley School District, alongside its health partners, including the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, is telling unvaccinated students to stay home during the quarantine period due to possible exposure. Quarantine periods for measles can last a few weeks.
Broomfield mom Jennifer Ditton doesn’t have a child in high school, but does have other kids in the district. She shared her concerns about her children’s friends, as well as the siblings of those families in the high school, being exposed. She was particularly concerned for her preschooler, who’s still too young to get fully vaccinated against the measles…