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Do you want your son or daughter to get the Covid19 vaccine?
Do you think it should be mandatory or a parent’s choice to vaccinate their child?
A New Jersey State Senator from Middlesex County, Senator Joe Vitale, wants to introduce legislation that will require that NJ children get the coronavirus vaccine, once one is approved just like the shots for polio and small pox, measles, mumps, rubella. Unless there is a medical exemption.
According to the Patch, Pharmaceutical companies are rapidly working to develop a children's coronavirus vaccine. The New York Times reports Johnson & Johnson, which just had its adult one-shot COVID vaccine green-lighted by the Food & Drug Administration Friday, is now testing its coronavirus vaccine on infants and even newborns.
This is being done under approval from the FDA.
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are both currently testing their vaccines in children 12 and older. Both companies said they plan to "gradually test them in younger and younger age groups," the Times reported.
Some New Jersey State Legislators, mostly Republicans are not happy with Senator Vitale's proposal.
NJ State Senator Mike Doherty, a Republican who represents the Hunterdon County area told the Patch, "It's not something I would support and I believe in the right to informed consent. The vaccines as far as I know have not been tested on young children. And I will also note that even if you get COVID, the survival rate is well above 99 percent. Most of the deaths are among the old and those who are sick. It hasn't affected young people under 20 at all. So why are we vaccinating people under 20? What's the point? Why are we forcing everyone to get the vaccine? It doesn't make any logical sense."
