As a former head school nurse for one of the Southwestern Virginia Counties I highly recommend a mandate for the SarsCoV2 vaccine. In so many instances with younger children chronic illness has not yet been discovered until the middle school years. In one month during one of our school years we had eight students newly diagnosed with diabetes for instance which would make them extremely susceptible to SarsCoV2. We had  over 500 students in the system diagnosed with asthma and on daily drugs making them more susceptible to respiratory infection. There were at least 4 students who received organ transplants, several cancer patients and others on steroids. This county isn’t even one of the larger population centers in the state. Without vaccinations we have no idea how many children could die or be permanently impacted. At this time the National percentage of daily diagnosed cases who are children have increased to over 25% of all new cases. What is the life of a child worth? I think it’s priceless and I hope you do as well.