However, as with many of the governorвЂ™s pronouncements, the vaccination declaration has a somewhat smarmy tinge. We encourage other states to follow our lead to keep our kids safe and prevent the spread of COVID-19.вЂќ ItвЂ™s why California leads the country in preventing school closures and has the lowest case rates. вЂњTodayвЂ™s measure, just like our first-in-the-nation school masking and staff vaccination requirements, is about protecting our children and school staff, and keeping them in the classroom. вЂњThe state already requires that students are vaccinated against viruses that cause measles, mumps, and rubella (so) thereвЂ™s no reason why we wouldnвЂ™t do the same for COVID-19,вЂќ Newsom said. Get a veteran journalist's take on what's going on in California with a weekly round-up of Dan's column every Friday. Gavin Newsom did so last week, declaring that when coronavirus vaccines become available for children, they must be immunized before attending public school. Given that historic background, its grounding in medical science and the obvious peril of COVID-19, it makes perfect sense for California to add it to the list of mandatory vaccinations. Unvaccinated children pose death threats to their classmates and ignoring that danger would be immoral. Vaccination mandates have been tightened in recent years despite raucous opposition by those deluded into believing they are immoral or dangerous. The list includes measles, mumps, rubella, polio, chicken pox, hepatitis, whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus.

Generations of California public school students have been required - by law - to be vaccinated against deadly diseases. Gavin Newsom boasts that California is first state to require COVID-19 vaccinations of students, but thereвЂ™s a smarmy tinge to his declaration.

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