Governor DeSantis: No Mandatory COVID Jabs for Kids Despite CDC Vote to Add Shots to Immunization Schedule

Ashley Sadler : Oct 21, 2022
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"As long as I'm around, as long as I'm kicking and screaming, there will be no COVID shot mandate for your kids." -Governor Ron DeSantis

[LifeSiteNews.com] Florida's firebrand Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is maintaining his reputation for resisting totalitarian COVID-19 mandates by pledging that school children in his state won't be required to get coronavirus jabs despite the CDC's vote to add the shots to its childhood immunization schedule. (Screengrab image)

The decision comes as a CDC committee on Thursday unanimously voted to greenlight the addition of the experimental mRNA COVID shots to the recommended childhood immunization schedule. The upshot of the vote is that many schools will add COVID shots to their required vaccinations, making the jabs functionally mandatory for many children.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is expected to sign off on the decision.

Despite the CDC's moves, however, DeSantis on Thursday declared that no Florida schoolkids will be forced to get the jab.

"As long as I'm around, as long as I'm kicking and screaming, there will be no COVID shot mandate for your kids," Gov. DeSantis told parents... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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