Louisiana's mandate includes an opt-out for parents, while California's mandate would allow exemptions for medical reasons and personal beliefs. A medical reason often requires proof from a doctor. But a personal belief exemption is easier to obtain, often requiring a letter from the student or ...
Inmates who want in-person visits or who work outside prisons, including inmate firefighters, must also be fully vaccinated or have a religious or medical exemption. The prison guard’s union said it may appeal the mandate. More than 50,000 California inmates have been infected and at least ...
Chicago-based United, which operates in more than 360 airports worldwide, said children over age 2 have to wear a mask. Those who need an exemption for a medical issue or other reason should talk to airport staff, United said. Other airlines are also stepping up scrutiny on mask exemptions...
Thursday’s order from the department doesn’t give health care workers the option of being submitted to weekly virus testing. However, it does allow for workers to qualify for either a medical or religious exemption. Employees who receive an exemption would then be submitted to weekly testing ...
"The science is clear thatvaccines dramatically protect childrenagainst a number of infectious and dangerous diseases," Brown wrote. "While it's true that no medical intervention is without risk, the evidence shows that immunization powerfullybenefits and protects the community." ...
Santa Clara and San Francisco counties are among those urging private employers to require employees be vaccinated. San Francisco is mandating all 35,000 municipal workers get inoculated as soon as the vaccines receive full approval from the Food and Drug Administration or get an exemption. Santa ...
Senator Pan (D), stated “a licensed physician can grant a medical exemption, and it’s basically at their professional judgment. There is no authority of public health to overturn that exemption.” This was the assurance that helped Senator Pan get the needed votes for SB277, the law t...
Stanford University also announced a mandate Thursday for all of its 19,000 students to be vaccinated when classes start in the fall. At theprivate school, students who have an approved vaccination exemption for medical or religious reasons will be required to undergo regular COVID-19 testing. ...
(PBE) is no longer valid for anyone. AVFCA is “currently sponsoring a lawsuit which argues SB 277 goes against the US Constitution’s First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause and California law must include a Religious Exemption in the statute requiring children to get vaccines to be enrolled ...
Elementary school student Rhett Krawitt spoke before the board of the Reed Union School District north of San Francisco on Tuesday night, before the panel voted 4-1 to support any statewide effort to eliminate personal belief exemptions for vaccines. ...