All the GOP governors banning COVID-19 vaccination mandates require other vaccines
In early 2019, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, declared his state "pro-vaccination" and opposed efforts to broaden exemptions for mandatory vaccines. In August, Ducey banned his state's authorities from requiring government employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Four years ago, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb mandated meningitis vaccines for public college and university students. Now, he says choosing whether or not to be vaccinated is a "fundamental" right.
Ducey and Holcomb are among a host of Republican governors fighting COVID-19 vaccination mandates, even as their states simultaneously enforce other vaccine mandates. Five health law experts told Insider these positions are fundamentally contradictory and illustrate the politicization of vaccines and public health in the age of the coronavirus.
"There is a certain hypocrisy in mandating childhood vaccines for all school children while objecting to employer mandates," Lawrence Gostin, a public health law scholar at Georgetown University, told Insider. "Childhood vaccines are required even if the parent objects and several states don't grant any religious exemptions."
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