Schoolchildren are required to get a host of shots, but will they be for this virus? Experts say a mandate may be premature.
Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images When the Wappingers school board in New York convened its regularly scheduled Zoom meeting in mid-October, the agenda included a hotly contentious vote. The board’s Legislative Action Committee had drafted a letter addressed to Governor Kathy Hochul “strongly objecting” to any legislation that would require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Ten days after the Wappingers school-board vote, the FDA approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for school-age children, stoking debates about school-vaccine requirements across the nation. In Seattle, the school board is considering a resolution to push for a statewide mandate, and Maine’s CDC is weighing a statewide requirement.
State laws regarding school-vaccination requirements vary. Alabama, for example, is the only state that doesn’t require vaccination against hepatitis B. Six states and New York City require students to be vaccinated for influenza. All states allow medical exemptions to vaccination and 44 allow religious exemptions.
“From a public-health perspective, I do think that premature discussion and preparation of legislation for vaccine mandates for schoolchildren could result in a backlash,” said Dr. William Moss, executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. While COVID-19 can pose a serious threat to children, it doesn’t rise to the level of smallpox, polio, or diphtheria.
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