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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10/14/21  6:40 am
Commenter: Kevin Lacey

Considerations & Burden of Proof
 

I believe the state should bear the burden to demonstrate the following before moving to encroach on the liberty of school employees:

 1. That the rate of voluntary vaccination among school employees is inadequate to protect the public from significant harm. (Meaning death, hospitalization or long term serious illness). 

2. That a mandate would increase the vaccination rate to the point where the public would in fact be significantly better protected from significant harm than it is currently. 

-If the state can demonstrate these points convincingly, (through additional public hearings) than it should proceed only after a clear, robust and fair policy for religious and medical exemptions for employees is implemented. 

 

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