State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond urged students to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before the fall term begins and full, in-person classes resume.
Thurmond called on students age 12 and up to get vaccinated as soon as they can to protect themselves, their peers and their teachers.
Thurmond also urged parents to do the same, especially if they have children who are under age 12 and thus not yet eligible for a vaccine.
“We just want to urge and encourage every adult who can get a vaccine, if nothing else, get your vaccine so that you can help your children who can’t get a vaccine be able to be safe and to be able to get their education in person,” Thurmond said Friday morning.
Thurmond deferred to state legislators and public health officials when asked if the state is considering a mandate for the COVID-19 vaccine the same way it mandates vaccinations against illnesses like measles and whooping cough, but argued the vaccines’ protection from serious illness and death is a public good.
“At the rate that they are projecting that the unvaccinated folks will get COVID-19 due to the (delta) variant, it seems to me that a vaccine mandate is a good thing,” he said. “But mandates are only as good as they are able to be enforced. … Until there are mandates, we must do all that we can to educate those who have been hesitant.”
Thurmond’s encouragement comes the same week that three unvaccinated teachers in Broward County, Florida, died due to COVID-19 complications just a week before their classes are scheduled to start.
State officials have attempted to mitigate similar outcomes by requiring teachers to either confirm their vaccination status or get tested for COVID-19 weekly.
“We’re seeing that 99 percent of the cases with serious injury are those who are unvaccinated,” Thurmond said. “That tells us that we can prevent serious injury by making sure that those who can’t get a vaccine get one.”
All state healthcare workers are mandated to get vaccinated. Cops, fireman, state workers, in many counties, county workers.
But teachers get a choice?
This alone is why Newsom needs to be recalled,
HE IS OWNED BY THE C TA!
What a great guy
He cared so much for us .. he’s so worried about all the unvaxxed health.
Such a saint
Would love to see Tony’s medical degree.
Just a suggestion, but he might want to first concentrate on covid positive illegals entering our country and state.
If 99 percent of the current serious illnesses are the unvaccinated then why do the vaccinated care what others do? And of those 1 percent who are vaccinated and seriously ill what other issues do they have and why would a 12 year old who has no real impact from this virus worry about protecting people who can protect themselves? Lastly, measles, and other required vaccines are for issues that actually impact kids not this. Are they going to mandate the seasonal flu shot as well?
What does the profession of the teachers who died have to do with it? What about others in a different profession who died? Are we listing professions now? The news on the teachers was made to look as though they got it from their students, or might have passed along to them. In fact, school isn’t yet in session in that area.
False info that Covid45 doesn’t affect kids. https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiSmh0dHBzOi8vbmV3cy55YWhvby5jb20vY2hpbGQtY292aWQtMTktaG9zcGl0YWxpemF0aW9uLXJhdGVzLTEyMDAyOTM1Mi5odG1s0gFSaHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9hbXBodG1sL2NoaWxkLWNvdmlkLTE5LWhvc3BpdGFsaXphdGlvbi1yYXRlcy0xMjAwMjkzNTIuaHRtbA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
@Rich,
Your reply is a great example of why you should use a link shortener like tinyurl.
@Rich
It is also false information that the folks at the Obama-Variant party were sophisticated. Obama variant spiking all over the place.
thurmond is a perfect example of an affirmative action hire. Totally unqualified for the job but got it because he’s black. Now he’s telling Americans what to do.
Now that all Americans have been classified as terrorists by the DHS, things will be getting very interesting.
First they came for the…
They WILL come for you eventually, this is what communists always do.
Obama was the perfect example of that…
The same people who are pro-abortion and want to see your papers but think that showing voter ID is racist are the same ones that want you to get an experimental gene therapy shot and wear a mask something doesn’t smell right this has nothing to do with a virus this is all about communist control
I am still amazed (sarc) that a black communist from Berkeley was “elected” to the MDUSD board during last years cheatapalooza farce
With all cities in the district having only a few percentage black residents I don’t really see how her leftists platform and values could have attracted the most votes and I would have expected the opposite actually
It really could have come down to the usual “projected winner” scam by the media when only a small fraction of the actual votes were even counted yet
This always sends a signal to the other candidates to back off from scrutinizing the result or else….
Never overestimate the intelligence of the residents of Claycord. They don’t know what’s good for them OR what’s bad for them.
Thurmond trying to cash-in on that $100 per vaccine referral.
We just don’t want you infecting those who don’t get a choice to be vaccinated, such as hmmmmm OUR CHILDREN!!
If you don’t want to be responsible, then JUST STAY HOME!
Then again, all of you anti mask anti vaccine and anti mandate people, just 2 weeks ago were posting that the PANDEMIC IS OVER!! lol
The intelligent people laughed but couldn’t convince stupidity.
I have news for you… just down in So America (Peru), the next variant is coming our way (it has already reached America). The new variant is:
The Lambda variant. (They’re using the Greek alpha as the names they’re giving it.
Go right ahead on and don’t get any vaccines, I think Jenny McCarthy started this movement listening to someone who lied about vaccines and stopped many children to be armed with the tools to fight some of our most deadly diseases.
Here is another Must Watch 9 minute video of a bunch of Doctors discussing the horrible future repercussions they expect to be felt from the vaccines! Very hard to dispute these predictions when you really understand how this mNRA jab moves around in everyone’s body, and what will eventually happen to the vascular sections of your heart, lungs and brain. Very, Very Scary. Please give it a view and comment. Especially you parents of kids that might be getting, or have gotten the shots!?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sIWb9GTbbE&t=1s
By reading all these comments I wish all of you would be able to work in our hospital ICU units! That would really help you wake up to see how important complete COVID mandates are so necessary. This is a pandemic that was actually gotten worse since the beginning because of the Delta Variant! Why use a political reason to argue this frightening reality? I ask you really. Hard to believe that politics can solve this. How is it working for us if you honestly believe that our freedom to be without mandates is the answer.