On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that the state would become the first to require that all teachers and other school personnel either be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to regular testing. The delta variety has continued to spread, resulting in the highest number of cases and hospitalizations in several areas since the pandemic started.
Newsom’s statement comes only five weeks before the Democratic governor faces a recall effort that gained traction last year due to the state’s stringent COVID-19 regulations, which were imposed by the state legislature.
The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC) Encourages Pregnant Women To Be Vaccinated
According to the directive, teachers and all other school workers, including custodians, aides, and bus drivers, are required to provide documentation of their vaccination status to their school district. Employees who have not been vaccinated are required to submit to testing every week. Newsom stated at a school in Oakland that they believe this is the right thing to do and that they believe this is a sustainable approach to keep our schools open for the foreseeable future. His remarks indicated that the legislation is intended to reassure parents that the state’s schools are “doing all in their power to keep our children safe and to keep our children healthy.”
As the nation’s most populous state, California was the first to enact legislation that required teachers and school staff to be drug tested. This included individuals who worked in private schools. A week earlier, the state of Hawaii issued a similar directive that applied to public school personnel. California has more than 1,000 school districts, which employ around 320,000 people. It has a student population of more than 6.1 million. Schools and workers must comply with the directive by October 15, according to the decree.
Although it may come as a surprise to some, RupaliLimaye, a professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and an expert in vaccine decision-making, says that the state’s wide authority is understandable. They’ve always been a bit of a trailblazer in terms of public health, closely following the evidence and being less susceptible to political pressure.
Both federal government and local and state leaders have issued mandate after mandate on testing and shots in the hopes of increasing vaccination rates in the wake of a wave of hospitalizations among children and teenagers.
According to the CDC, this group was previously thought to be more protected from the virus and its potentially dangerous symptoms. According to the Centers for Disease Control, pregnant ladies should get the COVID vaccine as soon as they are able, which warned of the possibility of “severe outcomes” for those who do not. The agency also noted that no evidence of getting the vaccine increases the risk of miscarriage.
The suggestion comes when the United States sees yet another rise in coronavirus infections, with daily instances in the country exceeding 100,000. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), pregnant and recently pregnant women are more likely than non-pregnant women to become seriously sick with COVID-19. It is possible to protect yourself from serious diseases caused by COVID-19 by getting the COVID-19 vaccination.
As a result of the coronavirus, pregnant mothers are at an increased risk of acute sickness and pregnancy problems, including miscarriages and stillbirths. However, their vaccination rates are low: according to CDC statistics, just around 23 percent of children have gotten at least one dose of vaccine.
According to the CDC, breastfeeding moms, women who are currently attempting to conceive, and women who want to conceive in the future should all get vaccinated against COVID.
