US coronavirus: Schools will need vaccine mandates for in-person classes to last, expert says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As Covid-19 cases surge among children, vaccine mandates in schools might become the only way to keep kids learning safely in classrooms, a pediatrician said.

"So far, we've not seen a lot of Covid vaccine mandates, even for the teenagers," said pediatrician and vaccinologist Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine

"It's gonna have to happen if we're going to get kids through the school year."

Childhood Covid-19 case have increased "exponentially" among children in recent weeks, the American Academy of Pediatrics said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-coronavirus-schools-will-need-vaccine-mandates-for-in-person-classes-to-last-expert-says/ar-AAOpz6v

[lagomorph777]

1. We're not even ALLOWED to vaccinate kids under 12.

We have a long way to go before actually being able to MANDATE protection.

Which is utterly infuriating.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. While I'm FOR Vaccine Mandates...

...the data in our area of the country contradicts this contention.
Schools have been in-person around here (all of them, in a tricounty area with a million people) and vaccines didn't become available to kids until May.
So, NOBODY was vaccinated for 8 months of the school year and shutdowns not only were avoided, outbreaks (defined by state public health officials) as 5 or more cases in a school within 8 school days.
Under 3% of the state's schools hit that threshold over this time period. (Now, nearly 10 school months)
Rigorous enforcement of masking seems to have worked quite well, and now we've got 50-100% of staffs vaccinated.
Again, I support vax mandates, but I don't see how this expert reached this conclusion without cherry picking data.

[Botany]

3. What is happening in and around Memphis is scary bad. 20,000 cases in Memphis area schools.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215853488