Parents were fine with sweeping school vaccination mandates five decades ago – but COVID-19 may be a different story
- Written by James Colgrove, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health; Dean of the Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program, Columbia School of General Studies, Columbia University
Children and parents lined up for polio vaccines outside a Syracuse, New York school in 1961.AP PhotoThe ongoing battles over COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S. are likely to get more heated when the Food and Drug Administration authorizes emergency use of a vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, expected later this fall.
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