“I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea,”
— Dr Fauci
Infectious disease expert of the United States, Dr Anthony Fauci, advocated a mandate for vaccinating school-going children against Covid-19.
“A lot of people are pushing back against that but if you get the information about the safety and strong benefit-risk ratio for the children, when that gets established which I believe it certainly will by the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) and the Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP), I believe that mandating vaccines for children appearing in school is a good idea,” Dr Fauci said in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union programme on Sunday.
“I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea,” Dr Fauci said.
“We’ve done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis. So this would not be something new requiring vaccinations for children to come to school.”
He cited diseases like polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and hepatitis and said, “We’ve done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis. So this would not be something new requiring vaccinations for children to come to school.”
He called ‘flexible’ the idea of US plan to give citizens booster shots of Covid vaccine eight-month after they complete their doses.
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