CDC’s Move Paves Way for California to Require School COVID Vaccines — But Lawmakers Have Given Up for Now
By
Elizabeth Aguilera, CALmatters
on
October 28, 2022 at 12:01PM
The state Department of Public Health refused to say whether it plans to add the vaccine to the required list. Instead the agency referred to its previous statement from April in an email: “…upon full approval by the FDA, CDPH will consider the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians prior to considering a school vaccine requirement.”