The decision to administer the COVID Vaccine to a minor child is the right and responsibility of the parent or guardian. The parent is the only person in the position to make the appropriate choice for their child's best interest and health. This is not a duty of the State or any of its departments. 
Any parent, such as the parent that filed this petition, concerned about their child contracting COVID is entitled to the same rights and responsibilities  to choose to vaccinate their child as a precaution, if it is in the child’s best interest.