COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children attending schools as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus continues to fuel a surge in cases in the nation.“I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea,” Fauci told CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “We’ve done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis” vaccinations. ‘Get tested’ for COVID-19 even if you’re fully vaccinated, Fauci says as Delta variant rages Currently, children under 12 are not eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
But Fauci, in a separate interview on ABC’s “This Week” program, said there should be enough data by early October for the U.S.