This is happening in NC as well but not because CO and NC are terrible. The existing laws served to ensure that available vaccines were cleared by the vaccine advisory board. That worked until RFKJr corrupted the board, so now those laws hamstring what would otherwise be advised vaccines.
For example, I can get a shot in SC because SC has historically been so contrarian that they had no such law. SC also allows unpasteurized milk for sale. So states w/ laws to protect public health are ironically affected because the pub. health infrastructure has been corrupted by MAHA sociopaths.
I should add that this is not a comment on Polis but rather an explanation of existing state law that complicates distributing vaccines not approved by the vaccine advisory board.
Yes, I understand the law and why it exists, and that this is all RFK Jr's fault. But Polis thinks RFK Jr is doing a great job and I was also very unhappy with his policies during the initial COVID outbreak in 2020.
For instance, instead of statewide restrictions, Polis set up tracking of COVID rates by county, and counties were supposed to manage things themselves subject to stricter quarantines/shutdowns if their rates got too high. Rates got too high and Polis did NOTHING but set the scale higher!
Not defending Polis! Just explaining the irony of why laws many states have had for decades to safeguard public health are backfiring in the face of abject corruption by the Trump-RFKJr. killing machine.