The nation’s largest teacher’s union is proposing a requirement that all students and staff returning in the fall be vaccinated for COVID-19.
At its annual meeting, the National Education Association said it “will call for mandatory safe and effective COVID-19 vaccinations and testing for all students and staff before returning to face-to-face instruction in the fall, subject to medical exceptions in accordance with existing law,” the Washington Examiner reported.
Only the Pfizer vaccine has been granted Emergency Use Authorization to be administered to children 12 through 15. None of the three experimental vaccines in the U.S. have been authorized for children under 12. The clinical trials for the Pfizer vaccine are expected to be completed Jan. 31, 2023.
The Examiner noted vaccine mandates have been a sticking point for many who have safety and efficacy concerns.
The New York State Nurses Association, for example, opposes mandatory shots “as either a condition of employment or as a state or federal mandate.”
“The public has legitimate concerns regarding the safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of any vaccine that has been developed and processed under an Emergency Use Authorization,” the nurses union said.
The NEA argued the pandemic “respects no boundaries,” vowing to “fight for a policy that puts human life first.”
The organization will also “call for and publicize that safety measures such as social distancing, masking, and proper ventilation be mandatory for all.”
‘This is about personal rights’
Earlier this week, Ohio lawmakers passed a bill banning public schools and universities from requiring that students get a COVID-19 shot.
“Parents, in consultation with their personal doctors, have the right to make decisions about their children especially for vaccinations that are not fully approved by the FDA,” said Republican Sen. Andrew Brenner. “This is about personal rights.”
The vote came hours before Cincinnati Public Schools discussed requiring staff members to get vaccinated. Cleveland State University plans to require students living in residence halls this fall to be vaccinated.
Last week, the inventor of the mRNA technology behind the COVID-19 vaccines warned that Americans don’t have enough information to decide whether or not the benefits of getting the shots outweigh the risks.
Dr. Robert Malone emphasized that “people have the right to decide whether to accept vaccines or not, especially since these are experimental vaccines.”
He said regarding younger Americans that he “has a bias that the benefits probably don’t outweigh the risks in that cohort.”
Also last week, a Canadian surgeon who called for pausing the COVID-19 vaccinations for children was suspended from the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine and fired by the Saskatchewan Health Authority.
Emphasizing the need for “informed consent,” Dr. Francis Christian said that at a minimum, parents and children should be made aware of eight points of concern. Among them is that mRNA is an experimental vaccine design with only “interim authorization” in Canada and that “COVID-19 does not pose a threat to our kids.”
Last Wednesday, the FDA said it will add a warning to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines after a CDC advisory panel pointed to data showing a “likely association” between the vaccines and rare cases of heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults.
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