As schools around the country prepare to reopen, a majority of parents of school-age children say they do not want their children’s schools to require students to get a COVID-19 vaccine in order to attend in person classes, the latest KFF Covid-19 Vaccine Monitor report finds.
This includes most (58%) parents of adolescent students, ages 12-17, who are already eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine under an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Fewer (42%) of these parents say they want their schools to mandate vaccination.
Not surprisingly, parents of adolescent children who have already gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine are far more supportive of schools requiring them than parents of similarly aged unvaccinated children. Three-quarters (75%) of parents of vaccinated children want their schools to require it, while a large majority (83%) of parents of unvaccinated children oppose it. CONTINUED
Kaiser Family Foundation
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