Texas Rejects New CDC Recommendation to Mandate COVID Shot for Schoolchildren
October 27th, 2022Via: Epoch Times:
The entity that determines the vaccination schedule for children in Texas was quick to adjust its website on Oct. 20, hours after advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a recommendation to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the children’s immunization schedule.
After a state representative expressed his concern, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) removed a line on its website that stated: “Children need all CDC-recommended vaccines” to attend school.
Rep. Brian Harrison, a Republican, said he was pleased the DSHS quickly removed the “problematic language” from its website.
Harrison served as chief of staff for the federal Department of Health and Human Services during the Trump administration.
“I think governors who blindly defer to the CDC are derelict in their duty. I think state legislatures who allow state agencies to blindly defer to the CDC, at least for COVID vaccines, are derelict in their duty,” Harrison told The Epoch Times on Oct. 24.
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In Florida, the state health department recently advised against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for healthy children as well as for males aged 18 to 39.
“Based on currently available data, patients should be informed of the possible cardiac complications that can arise after receiving a mRNA COVID-19 vaccine,” the Sunshine State’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said in an Oct. 7 statement.
