"A safe vaccine that can prevent transmission, protect our kids and ensure that they can stay in in-person learning actually makes a lot of sense," he said.
More school districts may likely follow suit, creating a "domino effect," Brownstein said, especially as younger children become eligible to get the vaccine.
At this time, the school district said it is not requiring booster shots, which the Biden administration is planning to be made available as soon as next week for the general public at least eight months after their second dose.īeyond Los Angeles, nearby Culver City is mandating that public school students get the vaccine this school year, and two San Francisco Bay Area districts are considering the same. The Los Angeles Unified School District's Board of Education last week approved a mandate that students ages 12 and up be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. At the same time, at least nine states have barred schools from mandating that students get the vaccine, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas, according to the Associated Press. The pharmaceutical company has said it plans to submit vaccine safety data on 5- to 11-year-olds to the FDA by the end of September.Ĭurrently, no state requires the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 and older for school entry, though some are mandating it for certain state employees and many colleges are requiring it for students. Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is authorized for people as young as 12 and approved by the Food and Drug Administration for those ages 16 and up. In the last two weeks, nearly half a million children have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the latest report on pediatric coronavirus cases from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association. Pediatric COVID-19 rates have reached record levels in the U.S. "Precedents have been set that you can protect your community by requiring school vaccination requirements," L.J Tan, chief policy and partnerships officer for IAC, told ABC News.ĬREC Academy of Aerospace and Engineering sophomore Brian Acevedo, 16, receives a COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Myra Glass, of East Hartford, during a mass vaccination site at Pratt & Whitney Runway in East Hartford, Conn., April 26, 2021. stopped routine vaccination for smallpox - which has been eradicated globally - in the 1970s. Vaccines that aren't widely required by states include ones for the flu, hepatitis A, rotavirus and HPV, according to IAC. Nearly all states require vaccines that protect against mumps, chickenpox, hepatitis B and pneumococcal disease. All require vaccines that protect against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles and rubella, according to the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), a vaccine education and advocacy organization. Vaccine mandates for child care and schools vary by state. Routine child vaccination is estimated to prevent 936,000 premature deaths and 419 million illnesses in American children born between 19, according to the CDC. Thanks to vaccination efforts, many highly contagious diseases that were once common, such as measles, mumps, whooping cough (aka pertussis) and chickenpox, are now rare, while polio and smallpox have been eradicated in the U.S.
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