10 Republican, 2 Democrat Governors Refuse to Mandate COVID Shots for Schoolchildren
Calvin Freiburger : Oct 25, 2022
LifeSiteNews.com
The COVID-19 vaccines remain as controversial as ever for a variety of reasons.
[LifeSiteNews.com] Twelve states so far have announced they will not comply with the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's (CDC's) decision last week to add COVID-19 vaccination to the 2023 childhood immunization schedule for enrollment in public education. (Image: Unsplash-CDC)
The CDC's 15-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously last week to add the Moderna, Pfizer, and NovaVax COVID shots to the recommended immunization schedules for children and adults ages six months old and up. The decision does not itself mandate the shots, but provides a basis for states to do so.
On Friday, journalist Margaret Menge published a tally of the 12 states so far who have said they will not add the COVID shots to their school vaccination requirements, including 10 governed by Republicans and, interestingly, two with Democrat leaders.
The Republican-led states are Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia. The Democrat states are Colorado and Connecticut. Many states laws are currently written, however, in a way that merely mandates whatever shots the CDC adds to the schedule.
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Additionally, Menge notes that 10 Republican candidates for governor have declared they will not mandate the vaccines for school children if elected: Lee Zeldin in New York, Darren Bailey in Illinois, Heidi Ganahl in Colorado, Kari Lake in Arizona, Bob Stefanowski in Connecticut, Tudor Dixon in Michigan, Tim Michels in Wisconsin, Dan Cox in Maryland, Derek Schmidt in Kansas, and Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania.
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