Sen. Bernie Sanders said that students should not be forced to vaccinate against COVID-19.
“It’s not my job to vaccinate parents or children,” Vermont Progressive Told WCAX3 On Wednesday while visiting a school in his home state.
“What we want to do is make sure it is safe and from the evidence it seems that it will be safe.”
Sanders met with students at a school in Rutland if he was not in favor of offering incentives to encourage them to get vaccinated, the TV station reported.
The progressive icon’s comment comes as the Food and Drug Administration hopes to authorize the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15 as early as next week.
Right now, anyone 16 years of age or older in the US is eligible for a vaccine.
Many colleges and universities have announced that they will need to show evidence of vaccinating students to come back in the fall semester, but there have been some debates about using vaccine supplies on young teens who are severely infected with the virus. Is considered to be at low risk for becoming ill. While coronovirus is widespread in other parts of the world.
The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would make it easier to manufacture them in countries that are witnessing high levels of infection and death, with the goal of supporting intellectual property protection for vaccine production.
Sanders supported the move in a tweet on Thursday.
“The goal of the vaccine is to save lives and crush the epidemic, not to increase the profits of the pharmaceutical company” A tweet from the senator’s account said. “I commend the President for the exemption of intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines. It is good to see that the United States is leading the world on the global justice issue. “
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