The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), added the COVID-19 injections to the recommended childhood schedule. The schedule recommends the vaccine for children as young as six months old.
To make this sound less daunting, many liberal officials and media personalities tried to downplay the severity of this decision by saying that the CDC’s ruling does not force schools or organizations to add the vaccine to immunization rosters. But make no mistake, this is a still serious decision which carries a great deal of weight.
While the vote does not legally require states to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for children to attend public school, it does recommend it. Currently, 20 states have banned mandates requiring COVID-19 for public school attendance, given that children are at a low risk for contracting COVID-19, and that the CDC’s own guidance is now the same for vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
Considering the updated CDC guidance surrounding COVID-19, there may be a financial incentive to encourage everyone, at all ages to receive multiple doses of the vaccine. Once the shots were rolled out and given emergency-use approval from the FDA, government agencies immediately moved to require the vaccine for every public sector worker they could. This becomes increasingly suspicious when considering that Moderna recently had to discard nearly 30 million doses of their vaccine, claiming “nobody wants them.” All things considered, this looks like another case of Big Government lending a hand to Big Pharma.
The CDC’S recommendation causes concern, because though states have the ultimate authority to determine whether or not the COVID-19 vaccine will be required for students or not, states could be coerced into complying due to their dependence federal funding. The Department of Education and other federal institutions contribute an average of about 8 percent of total funds to elementary and secondary education.
As of right now, the recommendation does not apply pressure to public schools in this way, however the fear is that it will eventually be pushed on states, and therefore families, in the future.
