State Vaccine Mandates for COVID-19 – An Emerging Disparity between Childcare Providers and School Teachers
Despite ACIP recommendations, some states chose to prioritize only school teachers (and not child care providers) in guidance on vaccinations, sending the message that childcare providers’ occupational risk was less than that of school teachers and other frontline essential workers. For each state with legislative or regulatory directives, researchers collected information on issue date and compliance deadline, type (e.g., executive order, public health order), issuer (e.g., governor, public health officer), availability of vaccine exemptions and testing alternatives, and acceptable proofs of vaccination. Results suggested an unwarranted disparity between childcare and school settings in states’ efforts to promote vaccination, as the argument in favor of vaccinating the former is at least as strong as that of the latter for several reasons.
Abstract and Citation
Patel, Kavin and Omer, Saad B. and Gilliam, Walter, State Vaccine Mandates for COVID-19 – An Emerging Disparity between Childcare Providers and School Teachers (November 9, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3960121 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3960121