So how exactly is DC going to implement school vaccine mandate next year?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I can’t believe that people on here trust Europe more than our own medical community such as FDA, CDC, and leading medical organizations. Ours is the one everyone looks up to, are most rigorous, etc….

Many European countries don’t have enough vaccines for their adult population and why the have not recommended in kids people. Access is a problem but people don’t realize it here because anybody can get a vaccine.

What??? Sorry, as someone from Europe, I assure you that nobody there looks up to your public health officials. Also, European countries have plenty of vaccines for both adults and kids, and their recommendations for children have never had anything to do with supply shortages. They are simply more clear-eyed about the risks of the virus to kids.

- fully vaccinated DC mom of fully vaccinated kids

They did have access issues earlier especially the smaller poorer countries. Europe is recommending the vaccine. This article is 8 months old so number kids vaccinated in rich 1st world countries likely higher.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/12/06/covid-vaccine-for-children-who-in-europe-is-leading-the-race

The point is that the differences in the pediatric vaccine deliberations of the major European countries were never guided by supply shortages. Some countries, such as Sweden, are not recommending the vaccine for all 5-11 year olds, others are, but more importantly, nobody is even considering mandating it at this point.

Yes they were guided by supply shortages earlier and then they recommended the vaccines to kids. Looks like people in Europe followed their leaders recommendations and huge numbers of kids getting the vaccine. Can’t say the same for US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/world/europe/europe-covid-vaccinations.html

Do you seriously think this article about supply shortages in Europe from early 2021, which doesn't even mention kids and was published long before the vaccines were even given EUA for children, supports your misinformed argument?

Also, this thread is about vaccine mandates. NO European country is mandating or otherwise coercing children to get vaccinated against Covid.

Give it up lady. US is not mandating it either. But local school districts do have a right to decide vaccine requirements. Not happy, move out of DC then.

You obviously don’t get it in your little bubble. It’s not all about you.

I am just setting the PP straight on her misinformed arguments and nonsensical chance of supporting evidence. For your information, local school districts in Europe won't mandate it either (unlike here they don't fancy themselves public health experts making their own rules), so your argument that it won't be mandated here at the federal level is moot.

And I don't need to move because my kids are vaccinated. My concerns are specifically not about me, but about what a DCPS mandate would do to the whole population of DCPS. There is a reason LA walked theirs back so quickly.

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