Vaccines

“It’s our responsibility to at least provide the opportunity for all of our students,” Superintendent Talissa Dixon said at Tuesday’s school board meeting.

The CDC approved Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged five to 11 years old on Tuesday, and health centers are preparing to make shots available to the 125,000 kids in Franklin County now eligible.

An executive order issued by President Biden in September has prompted OSU to no longer allow its employees to apply for certain exemptions to the university's COVID-19 vaccination requirement. Employees who were granted personal exemptions must get vaccinated or apply for a medical or religious exemption by November 24.

After some debate, a group of scientists advising the FDA concluded that the vaccine's benefits outweigh its risks for young children.

A week after Ohio State's deadline for students and employees to get at least a first COVID-19 shot, 96% of the university community is at least partially vaccinated or have been granted an exemption.

The bill allows students and workers in both the private and public sectors to choose not to follow COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Senate President Matt Huffman (R-Lima) said they're approaching the issue with the question of whether or not the government should intervene to say "businesses, you can't do mandates."

Several bills have been introduced in the Ohio House to prohibit some form of mandates for vaccines, House Speaker Bob Cupp (R-Lima) said the Republican caucus is now looking over the proposals to form a piece of legislation that can have a "path forward."

Deferred doctors visits during the pandemic have left kids across the country behind on routine inoculations.

The more contagious delta variant of COVID is working its way through the population, and some state lawmakers last week heard hours of testimony on a bill that would outlaw all vaccine mandates in Ohio. On our Weekly Reporter Roundtable, we take a look at the latest on House Bill 248 and the proposed ban on vaccine mandates.