Republicans Vow to Not Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for School Attendance

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CDC advisers voted on Oct. 20 to recommend adding vaccines to immunization schedules

Republican governors and gubernatorial hopefuls are promising to prevent COVID-19 vaccine requirements for children to attend school.

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moves toward adopting an updated immunization schedule that will include COVID-19 vaccines, Republican governors and candidates say the update wonโ€™t lead to mandates in their states.

โ€œAs long as Iโ€™m around, as long as Iโ€™m kicking and screaming, there will be no COVID shot mandate for your kids,โ€ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican running for reelection, said during an unrelated press conference in Lee County. โ€œThat is your decision to make as parents.โ€

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, also a Republican, said in a video statement that โ€œas long as Iโ€™m governor, I will continue to protect your children, and Iโ€™ll fight off anyone and the federal government who tries to force the COVID vaccine on our kids.โ€

โ€œRegardless of what the CDC in Washington says, nothing changes in Oklahoma, and kids are not required to get a COVID vaccine to attend school,โ€ Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, said in a statement. โ€œItโ€™s up to parents to decide how to protect their child from viruses, and as long as I am governor, we will never force kids to get a COVID vaccine to go to school.โ€

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, another Republican, wrote on Twitter that he has always opposed mandates:

โ€œThanks to our work with the General Assembly, TN families wonโ€™t be impacted by todayโ€™s CDC vote. Weโ€™ll continue to stand for TN children & for personal freedom.โ€

Advisers to the CDC voted on Oct. 20 to recommend including the COVID-19 vaccines on the next version of the child and adolescent immunization schedules, which will be published in early 2023.

The CDC still has to adopt the recommendation, but the agency has been aggressively pro-vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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