This school district is the largest in the country to mandate a coronavirus shot - which joins a list of other vaccines already required to attend school that protect against highly contagious diseases.
Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health joins"GMA" to answer questions about children and COVID-19.By early next year, all eligible students attending a Los Angeles public schoolThe school district is the largest in the country to mandate the shot -- which joins a list of otherAll 50 states and the District of Columbia have vaccine requirements for children to attend school and child care facilities, including laws around allowable exemptions.
by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Other states followed suit, and by the 1980-1981 school year, all states had vaccination requirements for students entering the classroom, the CDC said.Bill Coleman, a sixth grade teacher, speaks with Jerry Oyler during class at Nibley Park School in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021.
"This is why vaccine mandates in schools have been super important," Brownstein said."They create a safe environment where you can recognize that you will not have transmission of a wide range of infectious diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough." Thanks to vaccination efforts, many highly contagious diseases that were once common, such as measles, mumps, whooping cough and chickenpox, are now rare, while polio and smallpox have been eradicated in the U.S. Routine child vaccination is estimated to prevent 936,000 premature deaths and 419 million illnesses in American children born between 1994 and 2018,Vaccine mandates for child care and schools vary by state.
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