Course: Differences in State COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Schoolteachers and Childcare Professionals
CME Credits: 1.00
Released: 2022-02-28
On August 11, 2021, California became the first state to require COVID-19 vaccination of schoolteachers. Childcare professionals, despite comparable occupational risk of contracting COVID-19, were excluded. To better understand this emerging disparity, we characterize state vaccine mandates for childcare professionals vs schoolteachers.
To determine which states had issued legislative or regulatory directives or both requiring vaccination of childcare or school personnel (as of November 1, 2021), we reviewed official archives of executive orders for all 50 states and DC and COVID-19 state databases maintained by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Academy for State Health Policy. For each identified state, we collected issue date, compliance deadline, type (eg, executive order, public health order), issuer (eg, governor, public health officer), availability of vaccine exemptions and testing alternatives, and acceptable proofs of vaccination. The current study is not research involving human subjects and is therefore not subject to institutional review board approval, per US Department of Health and Human Services regulation 45 CFR 46.101.
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