WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools, colleges and states that require students to be immunized against COVID-19 may be at risk of losing federal money under a White House order signed Friday by President Donald Trump.
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The order is expected to have little national impact because COVID-19 vaccine mandates have mostly been dropped at schools and colleges across the United States, and many states have passed legislation forbidding such mandates.
The order directs the Education Department and Health and Human Services to create a plan to end vaccine mandates for COVID-19. It isn’t clear what money the plan would use as leverage. Most federal education money is ordered by Congress.
It aims to fulfill a campaign promise from Trump, who often said he would “not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate.”
The order applies only to COVID-19 vaccines. All states have laws requiring that children attending schools be vaccinated against certain diseases including measles, mumps, polio, tetanus, whooping cough and chickenpox.
All U.S. states allow exemptions for children with medical conditions that prevent them from getting certain vaccines. Most also allow exemptions for religious or other nonmedical reasons.
Some colleges started requiring students to be immunized against COVID-19 during the pandemic, but most have dropped the requirements. A few continue to require vaccines at least for students living on campus, including Swarthmore and Oberlin colleges. Most of those colleges allow medical or religious exemptions.
Statewide student vaccine mandates were rare. California planned to add COVID-19 to the list of required vaccines for K-12 students, but it wasn’t enacted and was later dropped. Illinois had a requirement for college students but lifted it after about a year.
Again, a huge thank you to President Trump for sending the message that the AMerican people are not living in communist China under government tyranny and oppression. And anything that resembles such , he will confront and deal with and ELIMINATE. The whole covid disaster was a failed attempt by globalists and the medical elite and big pharma to push a bioweapon onto the world, in their goal of depopulation and control. President Trump hopefully now has the big picture, despite that in its inception, (the kill-shot), he was presumably also ‘fooled’).
Best man and the best president ever,, god bless you we love ❤️ you !!!
Who does Trump think he is to stop funding schools that mandate a genetic-therapy with an non-circulating toxic spike prion payload that often has no off-switch with over 50 confirmed serious adverse events?!!
You have to jab to protect grandma even if you got C19!! …oh wait a minute: it was never even tested to stop transmission. Never mind. Cursed be medical am haaretz who promoted and those who mandated this on others. AMEN! רשעים ארורים
is the Covid still a BIG problem in USA? here in Israel, one rarely hears of it. Flue is big, though
a meshugener bleibt a meshugener!
Great idea. No polio vax either.
I don’t understand. I thought all those who got the vaccine were supposed to have dropped dead by now.