COVID vaccines for children must be parents’ decision, not government’s

Published November 8, 2021 4:10pm ET



Now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 5 years old, school mandates are coming.

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest in the country, is already requiring students 12 and older to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the year. The rest of the state plans to follow suit within the next few months and require all public and private school students to get the vaccine if they want to attend in-person school, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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