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Opinion: California gave up on mandating COVID vaccines for schoolchildren. Here’s why that’s wise<!-- wp:html --><p><a href="https://whatsnew2day.com/">WhatsNew2Day</a></p> <div> <p>A ruling from the California Supreme Court last week <a target="_blank" class="link" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/school-vaccine-mandates-supreme-court-17799810.php" rel="noopener">reconfirmed</a> that individual school districts do not have the authority to require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. A few weeks earlier, officials in Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration confirmed that they had abandoned plans to mandate COVID vaccination of schoolchildren, and that similar legislation was being introduced. <a target="_blank" class="link" href="https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2022/04/kids-covid-vaccine-mandate-california/" rel="noopener">dropped</a> last year. That means, at least for the foreseeable future, it’s unlikely there will be any COVID vaccines on the way <a target="_blank" class="link" href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&division=105.&title=&part=2.&chapter=1.&article" rel="noopener">list of 10 vaccinations</a> California requires to go to school.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://whatsnew2day.com/opinion-california-gave-up-on-mandating-covid-vaccines-for-schoolchildren-heres-why-thats-wise/">Opinion: California gave up on mandating COVID vaccines for schoolchildren. Here’s why that’s wise</a> appeared first on <a href="https://whatsnew2day.com/">WhatsNew2Day</a>.</p> </div><!-- /wp:html -->

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A ruling from the California Supreme Court last week reconfirmed that individual school districts do not have the authority to require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. A few weeks earlier, officials in Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration confirmed that they had abandoned plans to mandate COVID vaccination of schoolchildren, and that similar legislation was being introduced. dropped last year. That means, at least for the foreseeable future, it’s unlikely there will be any COVID vaccines on the way list of 10 vaccinations California requires to go to school.

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