California Considers COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Students 12 and Up

California nationalist schoolhouse students 12 and older could beryllium required to get the COVID-19 vaccine successful bid to be classes successful person.

California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said the authorities is considering the request during a Thursday greeting media briefing.

The update from Ghaly comes aft respective schoolhouse districts, including Oakland Unified and Los Angeles Unified, announced a akin mandate for students.

"We're watching the acquisition successful Los Angeles, knowing what it means for students and families alike, unit arsenic well, and watching arsenic different counties see the same," Ghaly said. "So, that speech is happening surely arsenic portion of what we're considering astatine the state, but nary definitive enactment oregon determination is being made astatine the moment."

Ghaly said determination is simply a "long tradition" successful California and galore different states, if not each state, of having pupil vaccination requirements.

"This is not thing that is simply a caller portion of a conversation," helium said. "There's been a agelong speech astir vaccines successful schools and their relation successful protecting students. We, of course, are ever looking astatine the data, knowing wherever determination are opportunities to guarantee that California's vulnerable, those who tin beryllium protected, are protected done getting vaccinations."