At least 11 states have rejected or are expected to reject advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that pediatricians give COVID-19 shots to young people with other vaccines.
The CDC’s advisory committee on vaccination practices unanimously decided Thursday to include COVID-19 shots in children’s immunization schedule, which some schools and states use to create vaccination requirements. .
The Wyoming Department of Health said it won’t add the COVID-19 vaccine to the school vaccination schedule for children like the CDC did, according to the Cowboy State Daily. The office of Gov. Mark Gordon, a Republican, reinforced the decision, saying Wyoming would not heed CDC directives.
“Wyoming does not have a goal of proceeding to load [a] COVID vaccine onto its required list,” Gordon spokesman Michael Pearlman told The Cowboy State Daily. “The governor has imposed vaccines for adults or youth and believes that the anti-COVID-19 vaccination is a non-public election. “
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, announced in a tweet Thursday that his state would stick to CDC advice and introduced legislation opposing such a move. vaccine needs through 2029, The Des Moines Register reported.
Reynolds referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to the law when asked for comment.
“Regardless of what the CDC says, as long as you’re governor, we will never force COVID vaccination to get into school,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, also a Republican, wrote in a tweet Thursday.
Stitt signed SB 658 into law in 2021, which prohibits Oklahoma from requiring a COVID-19 vaccine to attend.
In Montana, the law prohibits discrimination based on the prestige of vaccination and applies to all “educational opportunities,” according to the state’s National Academy of Health Policy. Indiana law prohibits public school districts from requiring students, employees and parents to submit COVID-19 proof vaccinations.
West Virginia law states that no state entity can require evidence of COVID-19 vaccination to enter or use services, according to the academy. South Carolina law prohibits districts from requiring COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of student attendance.
Asked for comment, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to McMaster’s Friday tweet.
“There is some confusion about the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine recommendations,” McMaster wrote. “Let me clarify. As long as I am governor, I will never allow the federal government, or otherwise, to impose the COVID-19 vaccine on Carolina Schoolchildren.
Florida allows any educational establishment to impose a COVID-19 vaccination mandate on students, and Georgia prohibits any school district from requiring the vaccine to obtain an education, according to the National Academy for State Health Policy. In Mississippi, schools are prohibited from requiring scholars to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend.
Arkansas bans so-called vaccine passports, “even as a condition of education,” according to the academy, and Arizona law prohibits COVID-19 vaccination to attend school.
The CDC did not respond to a request for comment, nor did the governor’s offices in Wyoming, Florida, Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, West Virginia, Montana, Indiana and Oklahoma.
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