California would require Covid vaccination for Okay-12 college students attending college in-person after full FDA approval

California would require college students attending college in particular person to get vaccinated for Covid-19 following full approval by the Meals and Drug Administration, Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced on Friday.

Newsom’s newest order, the primary of its variety nationwide, will roll out in two phases for college kids studying in-person. The mandate will first take impact for college kids ages 12 and over following full approval by the FDA for that whole age group.

Pfizer’s Covid vaccine is at the moment approved solely on an emergency use foundation for kids ages 12 to fifteen. The FDA has permitted the vaccine for youths age 16 and over in August.

Newsom mentioned California will apply the mandate for college kids ages 12 and up as early as Jan. 1 however presumably as late as July 1 relying on when FDA authorization takes place.

California will then apply the vaccine mandate for college kids beneath 12 years of age in a second part after full FDA authorization takes place that age group. Pfizer submitted initial trial data to the FDA on children ages 5 to 11 final month and mentioned it will request emergency use authorization within the coming weeks.

“At the moment, we’ve got within the state of California administered at the least one dose to 63.5% of all of our younger cohort ages 12 to 17,” Newsom mentioned at a press convention. “However we’ve got to do extra — 84% of all eligible obtained one dose, however for 12 to 17, we’re not the place we must be.”

Newsom beforehand issued a weekly testing mandate for all unvaccinated college employees on Aug. 11.

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