Fauci said it is a “good idea” to make it mandatory for children in school to be vaccinated against Covid-19

• Dr. Anthony Fauci said that he supports the Covid-19 vaccination for children in school.
• Fauci told CNN’s Jake Tapper that requiring students to be vaccinated is not new.
• Currently, only people over 12 years old are eligible for the vaccine.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that he thinks it is a “good idea” to make it mandatory for school children to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

“This is nothing new,” Fauci told CNN’s Jack Taper in the “State of the Union Address”.”

“We have regulations in many places in schools, especially public schools. If you really want your children to come in, we have been doing this for decades, requiring [vaccines for] Poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis… so this is nothing new. Children are required to be vaccinated when they go to school,” Fauci said.

Covid-19 cases and infections have been on the rise, including Among the children, As Delta variants are more spread.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved any Covid-19 vaccine for children under 12 years of age.Pfizer’s recent vaccine Obtained full FDA approval Used for people over 16 years old.

Dr. Francis Collins, Dean of the National Institutes of Health, told NPR Pfizer expects to submit clinical trial results for children between 5 and 11 years old to the FDA next month. However, he said it may take several months after that to approve the vaccine for emergency use in children.

Collins said: “To be honest, I don’t think kids aged 5 to 11 will be approved before the end of 2021.”

Some parents are so concerned about the spread of Delta that They require pediatricians to vaccinate children under 12 years of age before FDA approval.

A Los Angeles pediatrician previously told Inside story They will not vaccinate anyone under 12 years of age until they are approved by the FDA.

Desease control Centre It is recommended that people over 12 years of age get vaccinated to help stop the spread of the virus.