Amidst increasing positive COVID-19 cases in Puerto Rico, Governor Pedro R. Pierluisi has issued an executive order requiring those working in healthcare and education settings to get vaccinated and boosted.
would it save lives if you added covid to the list for mandatory vaccines for children? well, let s look at that more deeply. first of all, those are state by state vaccine requirements. first of all, the federal government has never mandated no, i m asking you. i m just talking about what arkansas mandates. absolutely. so, there may be a time in the future you would want to mandate that in the schools, but that time is not now. we need to have more experience with that. we need to have more public acceptance of it, of the vaccine. so it could happen down the road. it also depends on the severity of the covid outbreak and whether cases skyrocket again or not. right now they re at a very low level in arkansas. it can happen, it may happen, but now is not the right time to do that. we need more information and to be able to build public confidence to a greater point,
well, let s look at that more deeply. first of all, those are state by state vaccine requirements. first of all, the federal government has never mandated no, i m asking you. i m just talking about what arkansas mandates. absolutely. so, there may be a time in the future you would want to mandate that in the schools, but that time is not now. we need to have more experience with that. we need to have more public acceptance of it, of the vaccine. so it could happen down the road. it also depends on the severity of the covid outbreak and whether cases skyrocket again or not. right now they re at a very low level in arkansas. it can happen, it may happen, but now is not the right time to do that. we need more information and to be able to build public confidence to a greater point, but it is a state decision.