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Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman and Director of Arizona Department of Health Services Dr. Cara Christ have sent a letter to schools, urging them to support an effort to make sure students are vaccinated. Both noted in the letter vaccine coverage among school-age children in Arizona continues to decline.

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