Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Regulations for the Immunization of School Children [12 VAC 5 ‑ 110]
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10/11/21  8:33 pm
Commenter: Sarah M

No Vaccine Mandates!
 

No vaccine mandates!  Individuals can choose to get the COVID vaccine, but it must be a choice not coercion!  Mandates go against medical-freedom - people must be able to make decisions about their own medical treatments.  Should mandates be enforced for adults, there must be medical and religious exemption options that are accepted liberally without intimidation or coercion about someone's personal medical/health situation or their sincerely held beliefs.  For children, the notion of a COVID vaccine mandate is heinous!  Despite questions about using the vaccine in a population with such minimal impact statistically, the vaccine may be lessening the symptoms for the individual, but it is not preventing "disruptions to education," "possible infections based on symptoms," or freedom to "go to school without masks" - look at the numbers at Virginia colleges that have extremely high vaccination rates, but students are living with mask policies, disruptions, and symptomatic cases.

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