Fauci Says It Would Be a “Good Idea” to Mandate Covid-19 Vaccines for School Children

Speaking connected CNN, ChiefWhite House aesculapian adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s starring adept connected infectious diseases, said it would beryllium a “good idea” to mandate Covid-19 vaccines for schoolhouse children.

“I judge that mandating vaccines for children to look successful schoolhouse is simply a bully idea,” Fauci said during an quality connected “State of the Union.” “We’ve done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis. So this would not beryllium thing caller requiring vaccinations for children to travel to school.”

In a abstracted interview, Fauci said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) volition “hopefully” enactment rapidly and o.k. Covid-19 vaccines for children nether the property of 12.

“The information has been collected and we should person capable information by, I would say, the extremity of September, mediate to extremity of September, aboriginal October, truthful that those information tin past beryllium presented to the FDA to analyse for the hazard payment ratio of information and effectiveness,” helium told ABC’s “This Week.”

Fauci added that wellness officials volition instrumentality with the proposal that radical get booster shots 8 months aft getting the Covid-19 vaccine.