New York lawmakers who introduced a bill last year to require the COVID-19 vaccine for school children weren’t successful in advancing that proposal. But they’re not giving up.
State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz sponsors legislation to require school students in New York be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. It died in the Health Committee this session.
“Our job is to try to keep people healthy, safe and certainly to prevent them from dying,” said Dinowitz, a Democrat from the Bronx. “And that, particularly, is important with respect to kids. …I believe that parents should be able to make these kinds of decision for their kids if those decisions don’t have an impact on other people, but because [this does] impact other people, that’s when it changes.”
