President Trump Orders End to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools

President Donald J. Trump on Friday signed an executive order ending COVID-19 vaccine mandates in K-12 schools and colleges nationwide.

The order is titled “Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools.”

At least 15 colleges still required proof of vaccination against COVD-19 prior to the president signing the order.

The order observes that “some school districts and universities continue to coerce children and young adults into taking the COVID-19 vaccine by conditioning their education on it, and others may re-implement such mandates.”

However, it notes that children and young adults have “remote risks of serious illness associated with COVID-19,” and therefore parents and young adults should be “left free to make their own decisions accordingly.”

“Given the incredibly low risk of serious COVID-19 illness for children and young adults, threatening to shut them out of an education is an intolerable infringement on personal freedom. Such mandates usurp parental authority and burden students of many faiths,” the order states.

Therefore, it adds,

It is the policy of my Administration that discretionary Federal funds should not be used to directly or indirectly support or subsidize an [education agency or school] that requires students to have received a COVID-19 vaccination to attend any in-person education program.

A fact sheet released by the White House explains:

The Order bars federal funds from being used to support or subsidize an educational service agency, state education agency, local education agency, elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education that requires students to have received a COVID-19 vaccination to attend in-person education programs.

The Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and Human Services must issue guidelines for compliance and provide a plan to end coercive COVID-19 vaccine mandates, including a report on non-compliant entities and a process for preventing federal funds from supporting educational entities that impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

You can watch a brief clip of the president signing the order below:

The president’s commonsense move comes just weeks after a Florida grand jury, impaneled to investigate potential criminal wrongdoing related to the COVID-19 pandemic, released its final report.

It found that pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna “took advantage of the scientific journal infrastructure” to hide adverse reactions to their COVID-19 shots and engaged in “a pattern of deceptive and obfuscatory behavior … that often straddled the line between ethical and unethical conduct.”

Additionally, the report found that for healthy young men, the potential side effects of Pfizer and Modern’s COVID-19 shots outweighed their potential benefits. The jury said:

For a sizable group of healthy young men, there is credible evidence that the risk of side effects from second doses of BNT162b2 or MRNA-1273 (Pfizer and Moderna’s shots) always outweighed their benefits, even at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As time went on, however, the infection, disease, hospitalization and death risks associated with SARS-CoV-2 have become significantly smaller, meaning that these vaccines were no longer able to confer the same level of protective benefits. This is true for everyone, not just healthy young men. Vaccine side effects, even minor adverse events, that may have been tolerable consequences in 2021 must be reconsidered in the context of this reduced protectiveness.

Even though – especially for young men – the side effects of COVID-19 shots likely outweighed their benefits, hundreds of colleges and universities still required their students to be vaccinated, according to a list compiled by No College Mandates.

Many school districts – like Los Angeles Unified School District and the District of Columbia Public Schools – even required young children or adolescents (who are even less at risk from COVID-19) to be vaccinated against the disease.

In 2022, D.C. Public Schools required adolescent students to receive a “full course” of COVID-19 vaccine shots, or be prohibited from attending in-person public school with no alternate online option.

No one should soon forget the excesses and abuses perpetrated by government authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly those that targeted and harmed children.

Focus on the Family continues to support the right of parents to be the primary decision makers for their children’s health, including whether to vaccinate against COVID-19.

Related articles and resources:

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CDC Votes to Add COVID-19 Vaccines to Childhood Immunization Schedule

D.C. Mayor Bars Unvaccinated Students From In-Person School and Virtual Learning

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