Gov. Newsom Unveils Plan To Vaccinate California School Kids And Employees

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS13/AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom connected Friday announced the nation’s archetypal coronavirus vaccination mandate for schoolchildren, a program that volition person each simple done precocious schoolhouse students get the shots erstwhile the vaccine gains last support from the U.S. authorities for antithetic property groups.

The authorities has afloat approved the COVID-19 vaccine for those 16 and implicit but lone granted an exigency authorization for anyone 12 to 15. Once national regulators afloat o.k. the vaccine for that group, the authorities volition necessitate students successful seventh done 12th grades to get vaccinated successful some nationalist and backstage schools, Newsom’s bureau said.

After afloat FDA approval, this is the plan, Newsom says:

Phase 1: Grades 7-12 (Jan. 1 oregon July 1, 2022 start)
Phase 2: K-6 (dates TBD) Concurrent with phases, employees volition besides get vaccinated, pending the Biden administration’s program to necessitate worker vaccinations.

The authorities volition necessitate the COVID-19 vaccine for students successful kindergarten done sixth people lone aft the national authorities has fixed last support for anyone property 5 to 11.

The archetypal signifier of vaccination volition hap for kids successful grades 7-12, which volition spell into effect during the adjacent word aft support — either connected Jan. 1 oregon July 1. Teachers volition besides beryllium required to beryllium vaccinated.

— CBS Sacramento CBS13 (@CBSSacramento) October 1, 2021

Additionally, Newsom says that determination volition beryllium exemptions for definite aesculapian conditions and immoderate idiosyncratic and spiritual beliefs.

The announcement comes arsenic infections successful astir of California person dropped markedly successful the past month. But Newsom has been emboldened aft easy defeating a callback effort past period pursuing a run wherever helium emphasized his committedness to vaccine mandates to extremity the pandemic.

Meanwhile, contiguous is the deadline for students and unit astatine Los Rios Community assemblage territory to get vaccinated.

“My caput has not changed since the time that the solution was passed, I judge that individuals should person the state to take their wellness decisions,” said an employee.

California Teachers Association President E. Toby Boyd issued the pursuing connection successful enactment of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide schoolhouse vaccine mandate:

“Teaching and learning are astir effectual successful person, and the COVID-19 vaccine is simply a proven measurement to forestall life-threatening illness, keeping schools harmless and unfastened for in-person instruction, and volition get america person to being capable to enactment this devastating pandemic down us. Since the beginning, CTA has called for entree to vaccines, testing, and multi-layered information measures successful bid to beryllium reunited with our students successful our classrooms. As the subject advances and COVID vaccines are approved for younger students, this is the adjacent measurement toward ensuring the wellness and information of our schools and communities accordant with different vaccine requirements successful schools. While recognizing the request for aesculapian and spiritual exemptions, we judge vaccinations are cardinal for some pupil and pedagogue safety, keeping our schools unfastened for in-person acquisition and for combating this pandemic. Ninety percent of CTA members are vaccinated, and an overwhelming bulk supports a vaccine mandate for students and staff. Several California schoolhouse districts person already worked with educators and families successful announcing vaccine mandates and volition not beryllium impacted by this caller order. Phasing successful the implementation timeline volition let section districts to hole with families and educators and connection schools a vaccination site. Working unneurotic we tin and volition bushed the deadly coronavirus that has claimed astir 70,000 Californians and 700,000 lives successful the U.S.”

Additionally, Republican Assemblyman Kevin Kiley spoke retired against Newsom, demanding accountability for Newsom’s “corrupt” and “hypocritical” vaccine mandates.

Kiley says, “There is nary crushed the Governor’s argumentation of ‘education’ and ‘access’ cannot usher vaccination argumentation successful schools.” At each turn, this Governor has fto his apical Special Interest donors dictate pandemic policy. It is an maltreatment of the nationalist spot without precedent successful our state’s history.”

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