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Can schools require COVID-19 vaccines for students now that Pfizer’s shot is authorised for kids 12 and up?
By 1915, 15 states and Washington, DC, required students to receive the smallpox vaccine, and 21 other states allowed local governments such as school districts and county health departments to impose such a requirement.School vaccination requirements have proliferated over the past century, in response to both specific outbreaks and the growing acceptance of vaccine mandates as public health policy.PTI | Michigan | Updated: 14-05-2021 15:21 IST | Created: 14-05-2021 15:21 IST
By Kristine Bowman, Michigan State University Michigan (US), May 14 (The Conversation) With the first COVID-19 vaccine now authorized for adolescents, ages 12 and up, a big question looms: Will students be required to get the vaccine before returning to their classrooms in the fall? As a professor of education policy and law and a former attorney for school districts, I regularly think about this sort of question.