Pima County will send mobile vaccination units to schools ahead of next school year under a plan approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors.
Mobile units are set to be sent to schools in the county that have vaccination rates for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) below 95%, the accepted level for herd immunity.
Supervisors pushed for such a vaccination effort in response to recent measles outbreaks across multiple states.
The plan, approved by supervisors Tuesday, will begin with initial outreach to schools starting July 1 to see if administrators are interested in having mobile units set up for a vaccination event.
The county will follow up with schools that do not respond to its initial outreach two weeks later, Pima County Health Director Dr. Theresa Cullen said.
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Supervisors on Tuesday approved a plan to send mobile units to schools in Pima County with vaccination rates for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) below 95%, the accepted level for herd immunity.
Mobile vaccination teams will be deployed to interested schools starting in late July, “aligning with the return to school and back-to-school health efforts,†County Administrator Jan Lesher said in a .
A total of 156 schools in Pima County are below the 95%-threshold, Cullen told supervisors Tuesday. MMR vaccination rates in Pima County schools below that threshold range from as low as 41.67% to 94.87%, according to the .
More than 1,000 cases of measles have been identified so far this year across the U.S., but there have been no confirmed measles cases in Pima County or in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, Cullen said.
The total “personnel cost†for running 10 events would be approximately $2,100 per team, staffed with one nurse and two support staff, according to the plan.
A set number of vaccination events will be presented to the board once they are scheduled, Cullen said.
There is a possibility that multiple schools will be consolidated into one event.
