Mon Oct 24, 2022 – 2:53 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Twelve states so far have announced they will not comply with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s (CDC’s) decision last week to add COVID-19 vaccination to the 2023 childhood immunization schedule for enrollment in public education.
The CDC’s 15-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously last week to add the Moderna, Pfizer, and NovaVax COVID shots to the recommended immunization schedules for children and adults ages six months old and up. The decision does not itself mandate the shots, but provides a basis for states to do so.
On Friday, journalist Margaret Menge published a tally of the 12 states so far who have said they will not add the COVID shots to their school vaccination requirements, including 10 governed by Republicans and, interestingly, two with Democrat leaders.
The Republican-led states are Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia. The Democrat states are Colorado and Connecticut. Many states laws are currently written, however, in a way that merely mandates whatever shots the CDC adds to the schedule.
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