Colorado School District Closes COVID-19 Vaccine Sites After Students Get Shots Without Parents Present

Colorado School District Closes COVID-19 Vaccine Sites After Students Get Shots Without Parents Present
A staff member grabs a vial of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Thornton, Colo., on March 6, 2021. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
Reporter
|Updated:

A public school district in the southern suburb of Denver, Colorado, has shut down its on-campus COVID-19 vaccination clinics after videos of teenagers being allowed to get the vaccine without their parents present went viral on social media.

The first video was filmed inside a clinic at a high school in Littleton, allegedly by a 16-year-old student checking in for his appointment. When a clinic staff asks the student’s name and his birthday, he lies about his age and says he was born in 2001, which would make him 20 years old. The student asks if he needs to “show any ID,” to which he is told no.