Mohave County supervisors are asking the county board to reconsider childhood vaccine requirements after Ron Gould's baby great-granddaughter was airlifted to a Phoenix hospital last week.
Gould said her 6-month-old great-granddaughter recently received many of the vaccines the county recommends for children. He requested action from her board days after she was hospitalized.
“It happened earlier this week,” Gould said Friday. “We have to find out what they are doing. She is doing well at home now and we hope there are no long-term effects. We need to find out what happened and find out what happened. We want to see if we can prevent the same thing from happening to other people.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, children should be vaccinated against hepatitis B, rotavirus, diphtheria, hemococcus, pneumococcus, polio, influenza, and coronaviruses at 6 months of age. Gould said when she gave the girl several of these vaccines at once, she developed a seizure and ended up being hospitalized.
Health officials are currently scheduled to brief the county board on vaccination requirements to attend public schools in Mohave County at its next board meeting Monday in Kingman.
Also at the meeting, the county will vote on whether to continue its agreement with the Arizona Department of Health Services to provide recommended childhood immunizations to Mohave County youth through the Mohave County Health Department's Free Immunization Program. .
If approved at Monday's meeting, the agreement would last until June 30, 2025.
