SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California gained’t make kids get the coronavirus vaccine to attend faculties.
The California Division of Public Well being stated Friday it’s not exploring emergency guidelines so as to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the checklist of required faculty vaccinations.
That’s a reversal from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2021 announcement that the state would add the COVID-19 vaccine to its checklist of mandated vaccinations for teenagers to attend faculty. Final yr, state officers delayed that requirement till at the least the summer time of 2023.
Now public well being officers say they’re not transferring forward with the trouble because the state prepares to finish its coronavirus emergency on Feb. 28.
State public well being officers stated they nonetheless “strongly suggest” immunization of scholars and workers. They added that any adjustments to the vaccine requirement are “correctly addressed by means of the legislative course of.”
