There should not be vaccine mandates for children. Children have very little chance to become sick from COVID-19 and little chance to transmit the disease. According to the CDC’s own numbers, over half a million people have been injured by the various vaccines. This means children are 10 times more likely to be injured by the vaccine then the virus. The vaccines have not completed clinical trials and won’t until May of 2023, the control group was vaccinated in February of 2021 according to the Washington Post, meaning the validity of the FDA approval is questionable. Allow parents to make the decision in consultation with their child’s physician and not bureaucrats in RIchmond.