Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines in Schools a Political Gamble for States

“There is some uncertainty and I think ambiguity in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act provisions that provide for emergency-use authorization about whether vaccines or medications that are authorized under that provision can be required,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells The National Law Journal. “We don’t have an authoritative pronouncement by a court.”