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Fauci backs COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. school children

Published 08/29/2021, 12:53 PM
Updated 08/29/2021, 12:55 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 20, 2021. J. Scott Applewhite/Pool via REUTERS

By Linda So

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he supports COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children attending schools as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus continues to fuel a surge in cases in the nation.

"I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea," Fauci told CNN’s "State of the Union" program. "We've done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis" vaccinations.

Currently, children under 12 are not eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. But Fauci, in a separate interview on ABC's "This Week" program, said there should be enough data by early October for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to consider whether the shot is safe for children under that age.

"I think there's a reasonable chance" that the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) vaccines could get FDA clearance for kids under 12 before the upcoming holiday season, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the White House, said last Tuesday.

As schools re-open for the fall, the rise in coronavirus cases is already causing significant disruptions.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 20, 2021. J. Scott Applewhite/Pool via REUTERS

Dozens of schools nationwide have had to delay the start of the school year or shut down since opening in August, according to data from tracking website Burbio https://cai.burbio.com/school-opening-tracker. Its data shows the impact on schools so far has been heaviest in the South, the epicenter of the current surge in cases and where vaccination rates among those already eligible are generally the lowest in the country.

The re-opening of schools is also contributing to a supply shortage of COVID-19 tests in the United States as schools revive surveillance programs that will require tens of millions of tests, according to industry executives and state health officials, Reuters reported https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-covid-19-tests-again-short-supply-infections-soar-schools-reopen-2021-08-27 last week.

Latest comments

Arrest Fauci
fourth Reich on display
Pidaraz
what a picture, sums his persona up nicely 👌
Hail Fauci
who cares what this quack says.
who cares what this quake says.
Let the bodies hit the floor !!! Let the bodies hit the floor!!!! Let the bodies hit the floooooooor!!!!!’
Ass
Heil to you too, Oberfuhrer Fauci, Heil Hitler! Looks to me like has practiced his Nazi salute much? N’est pas?
OMG!!  When is this guys 15 minutes going to be up?  Please......
Why? To sell more vials? Not recommended it needed, unnecessary risk to minors.
history will judge fauci as another mengele
He is saluting
It doesn't even work dude.  Hospitals are full of vaccinated people.  Not going to happen.
 get some dislikes, scientist.  Lol
Hospitals are full of 99% unvaccinated people. Source, I am a physician that works in a hospital.
 dude, even CDC has much higher number of vaccinated than you.  LOL
there should never be a mandate in an open society.. period
but most people, 90%, do not want an open society where people continue to die daily...
people die all the time. it's called life. people die from car accidents but we still drive
 By this logic lets let people drunk drive and *****more people. What does it matter? People die all the time any way.
Your thinking would have to be extremely naive  to allow this vax to enter the bloodstream of your kids. Oh and wow...won't it be a surprise when the FDA gives full approval of the vax for kids. Wow who could have seen it coming????
Yep
Fauci (italian) = jaws. Nomen est omen (latin) = "True to its name", or "The name says it all". I would not let this person open his jaws to speak in public or related to any public matter any more. I might be wrong, but from my perspective, his behaviour is a real shame to humanity. He should have resigned if he would have had the dignity and courage.
It is all about money...
frauxi
Gov should not hold people hands like kids. Let them make their own choice / decision. If they make a wrong one, they suffer or die. Lets the nature selection work. ‘live free or die’
If they die, that is ok, but their action will cause deaths to other and that is a big no no...
no they dont stop the propaganda
No David. The "other" also make their choices to get vaccinated or not.
anti vaxxer say "no long term studies so I don't want it" but yet most eat foods with GMOs and hold devices that emit radiation close to their bodies (cell phones) both of which do not have long term studies on detrimental side effects. the irony is quite comical. all these self proclaimed health experts who are also probably in poor health as it is, but now all of a sudden are the most health conscious people on the block..Can't make this stuff up🤣😂
Many uneducated snowflakes will be super triggered in the comments below.
Cool Story Rick. But most history has been recently re-written by the Leftist cult followers so you probably shouldn't believe it. Google "Is ______ racist?" inserting nearly any word you like and you will find results explaining the racist roots of it.
Experimental vaccine technology whose long term effects are impossible to know, SHOULD NOT BE INJECTED INTO KIDS!  How about we have an approved panel of Dr. rather then this SNAKE giving us their professional opinion.  Oh and CDC, F u 2!
And the irony that soneone who has no kids opining to others on what they should do as parents.
the irony of doing YouTube research and proclaiming to know more then those who been working in the industry for years. guess I struck a cord with an inbred
 seriously Taylor move out of your parents' basement and get a life
Fauci, rope, lamp post on Pennsylvania Avenue, minor assembly required.
The death rate for kids under 12 is way way lower than flu. Fauci is either wrong or kissing Biden / playing politic to save his rear.
do you live under a rock? have you not read the doctor testimonials from the childrens hospitals where covid is the worst? kids who were previously perfectly healthy are being intubulated after contracting covid with some having permanent conditions where others are dying. way worse by any means but keep drinking that misinformation kool-aid
all schools have had mandatory vaccination requirements with limited exceptions for quite some time and the adverse reactions you are referring to account for a minority of the population. there are several 100 thousand children either currently sick with covid or having to quarantine as we speak which I Will note account for a substantialy greater percentage then the rare side effects you speak of so you can take your YouTube inspired research somewhere else. the facts remains that 97% of hospital cases 99% of current deaths are of those whose are unvaccinated.
wanna kill them all
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