Most Oakland public school students age 12 and older will be required to be vaccinated following a vote by the school board Wednesday night, school district officials said Thursday.
The board voted 5-1, with one abstention, to enact a mandate that will go into effect no earlier than Jan. 1, Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammel said.
The Oakland Unified School District may be the first district in Northern California to enact a mandate.
“I think this is a very important and necessary step,” said Arnab Mukherjea, chair and associate professor of public health at California State University East Bay.
Besides protecting students from severe disease, hospitalization, and death, the vaccine also protects others, Mukherjea said.
“It creates a wall of human immunity for sixth-graders,” he said.
Oakland school officials will craft the vaccine mandate based on one created by the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is requiring all students who do not have an exemption to be vaccinated by Jan. 10.
Students 12 and up who participate in extra-curricular activities in Los Angeles Unified must receive their second dose by Oct. 31.
Students who are turning 12 must receive their second vaccine dose no later than eight weeks after their birthday, officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District said.
Oakland public schools will adjust the mandate created by Los Angeles Unified based on the needs in Oakland. All legally required exemptions and a personal belief exemption will be included in the mandate, Oakland school officials said.
“This isn’t new,” said Mukherjea, who is a father of two young children in public schools.
Most schools mandate vaccines for children, he said.
“This vaccine is extremely safe and effective,” he said.
Hundreds of millions of people have received the vaccine and if there was a major, adverse effect we would have known it by now, Mukherjea said.
He acknowledged some rarely occurring health problems with each of three vaccines approved for use in the U.S.
Also Thursday, state public health officials said they are considering a state vaccine mandate for school children 12 and older.
The Oakland school board told Johnson-Trammel to recommend to them no later than October about how to enforce Oakland’s mandate. Johnson-Trammel was also directed to start a vaccination campaign and create incentives for students to get vaccinated.
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Very happy to see this!!
Yep, definitely need kids with a healthy immune system to be injected with a dangerous experimental “vaccine”…for “protection” against a virus that if they do get it, they tend to not spread to others, and they have a >99.99% survival rate. Friggin clown world up in here.
So you happy to see a child be experimented on … gotcha, must Lovey.
Wow, you can say it is not an experiment, that it was approved by the FDA. Fine. Please show me the studies that demonstrate the long term effect of this vaccine in a child’s body who is going through puberty? Please break it down by race and sex. O, you can’t.
Okay, please show me how long this vaccine will provide protection to the child? Is it a once in a life time vaccine like Polio? or is it an annual shot like the Flu? O, you can’t.
Seems like we should know some of this data before people are FORCED to drug up their child.
Now, my children are vaccinated. We decided as a family that it was the right thing to do. This decision was based on our experience and knowledge of the science (through family who are actual scientists in biotech) but we made the choice. We were not FORCED to do it. This politically blow out of porportion virus should not translate to forcing kids (or adults) to get vaccinated.
Obviously, you disagree Lovey … Well … I think you might be in the minority.
@Parent
You come up with so very bad responses. Here’s something you don’t know. Most everyone gets the chickenpox vaccine even though less then 150 people die each year from it. Do you know why they get it? 2 reasons, 1st it’s a state law to get them if you want children entering childcare or public schools. 2nd, To help older people who never had the chickenpox at a younger age because it’s more deadly.
Measles, state laws that require children entering childcare or public schools to have the Measles vaccine. But wait, 6000 people died in 10 years from it. Yet people have to get the vaccine.. Hmmmm. Should I go on?
Do you see how you statements are pretty ridiculous? You say these are child experiments? Why? Because this vaccine has been out over a year now and you think it’s to fast? Here’s another history lesson for you. Did you know on average vaccines normally took 10-15 years to make and another few years to get out to the mass public. But, Mumps vaccine took less then 18 months to make and less then 4 years to get out? But no one really said how fast that took compared to all the other vaccines that were released. You only saying this stuff because you yourself thinks it’s too fast yet a lot of other vaccines were rejected. But 3 actually proven to work.
Also, I don’t think you understand how vaccines work. Vaccines don’t just show side effects years later down the road. That’s not at all how vaccines work. Vaccine shots are very similar to how a flu shot would be work. Big difference is. They just last longer on how your body fights it. If ANY side effects happen. It would be with-in weeks. Not 6 months or years down the line. No one vaccine does that. Just because it’s a mRNA vaccine doesn’t mean it will change. You should really look into what a RNA vaccine is and how the RNA really works.
I am glad you got vaccinated but, This is the right call to save other lives. You may believe it’s a 99.99% survive rate but remember, During when the pandemic 1st happen. We hit just above 6% death rate. We would probably be around that number if it wasn’t for the doctors now understanding how to save the people who wouldn’t survive. Also, It’s not just about the teens too 40 year old’s that survive. It’s the after effects it does on them and how bad it can be. It’s also for the older people who’s bodies won’t be able to handle it. the 60’s +. Stop thinking of it as teens and 30’s that will be fine. CDC and all the people have even said this.
Btw, Polio vaccine is not a once in a life time. You actually need to get it 4x.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/public/index.html
We need laws to make people wear seat belts otherwise we’d hear excuses. I am tired of hearing excuses about masks and vaccines.
They say “I did my own research” as if they worked in a lab. or wrote a research paper. It does NOT mean you read a meme that came from a TV or radio who repeated what someone said in a blog.
Today’s vaccines have been tested. They are not experimental.
Variants come from the unvax’ed spreading this preventable disease.
@ ME
You are funny. Your response is pretty funny as well. I think it is you that has no clue what you are talking about. And as for bad responses … check the mirror my friend.
A vaccine is a substance that provides immunity against a disease. This is a standard defintion found in many text books, dictionaries and other sources. The products offered by Pfizer, Moderna and J&J are not a vaccine if we can still catch and transmit the virus. You do not have to believe me on the definition, you can look it up.
The death rate at 6% … not quite. Try those numbers again please … check the CDC. Maybe you can pick a snapshot in time and find that number but that is not quite how statistics should be reported. We should be looking at the data over time.
The survival rate is NOT 99.9% … please look that up. It is a wee bit lower than that. Do not put words into my mouth, espicially when they are wrong. You can be wrong if you choose to be.
This medicine was made quickly. I am not saying too quick, but quickly. We do not know all the side effects, which can present short or in the long term. We can argue that all day long, but there are things called ‘acute’ and ‘chronic’ …
My mistake on the polio vaccine being 4 times. But that is a vaccine, correct … and not just a medicine to provide comfort careif you get catch it …
The survival rate for 0-19 *IS* 99.99%…actually it’s 99.997%. And it’s kids in that age group you absolute soulless unhinged ghouls want to inject with a dangerous (14,925 deaths, 19,210 permanently disabled, 80,393 urgent care, 60,741 hospitalizations as of 9/10/2021) experimental drug.
Well, Hawk Newsome, a Black activist and the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Greater New York chapter, calls vaccine mandates “Racist and Disrespectful”.
Let the liberal eat liberal smörgåsbord begin… Let the peaceful “protests” begin….
Fantastic news. I hope that CCC school districts follow suit soon.
Parent, what is your solution to protect the kids and educators? We can see what “nothing at all” results in as other states have decided to roll the dice with their children’s lives by not implementing safety measures.
Chuq
My solution?
First I need to understand what they need protection from? The majority of US has not had COVID. Let’s do simple numbers.
328M in the US. 42M cases. 12.8% of the US has had Covid. Note: There are some folks out there that say this number is MUCH higher as not everyone has had tests, and others that say that this number is lower because of ‘faulty tests’ or folks tested twice. So I will just work with the 42M.
666,440 deaths out of the 42M cases. Translates to a 1.6% death rate. The VAST majority of these are adults with underlying conditions.
So, as a peson living in the US, the teacher/student has a little worse than a 1 in 10 chance of catching Covid. And then IF they catch it, they have a less than a 1 in 50 chance of dying.
Now, if you add the fact in that over half (55.6%) of the United States in vaccinated, and in Califonria we are at (58.4%), those two data points would probably skew infection and death rates. And this is supported by the trends we are seeing currently.
There are people who are unwilling to accept those odds. I for one, will accept those odds for my children and family. I know that we cannot protect everyone, unfortunately there are losses. There are folks who think that we have to protect everyone, I am not one of them.
Finally let me end with an old saying …
You can lead a horse (person) to water (vaccine), but you cannot make the horse (person) drink (take) it.
The Slaughter.
People were warned for 18 months to get their kids out of these places.
No worries though, should your kid suffer an adverse reaction…….YOU WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO SPEAK ABOUT IT, YOU WILL BE CANCELED.
“‘Hundreds of millions of people have received the vaccine and if there was a major, adverse effect we would have known it by now,’ Mukherjea said.”
Really? That is laughable. You mean the reported cases of myocarditis in teenage boys after getting the COVID vaccine (gene therapy) isn’t a “major, adverse effect”…?? Not to mention the thousands of adverse effects filed on the VAERS site this year. We don’t yet know the long-term effects on adults yet, let alone children. Children rarely die or even have severe cases of COVID. This is totally unnecessary and is child abuse from Oakland USD.
It’s like playing Russian roulette with children, how many kids can we give shots of an experimental vaccine to, before one of them develops myocarditis or pericarditis? Even though it can be treated, and the patient has responded well to treatment, the heart may have some level of permanent damage. Consequently, later in life, the patient may develop severe heart disease.
Anyone saying, “if there was a major, adverse effect, we would have known it by now,” is lying, because myocarditis and pericarditis is in fact a major adverse effect. Any major, adverse effect can happen years from now, and with a new vaccine, nobody can possibility know for sure.
The best part…
“ Johnson-Trammel was also directed to start a vaccination campaign and create incentives for students to get vaccinated.”
Why create incentives if it’s a mandate? I’ll tell you why, because this whole thing is a joke. They are trying to buy compliance, and the people of the Oakland School District should be offended that this school board thinks they can be bought so easily.
Gross.
@Parent, why do you attack people who want the best for their kids? If you’re fed up with the political aspects, why do regurgitate political talking points? Camps, really?
Vaccine mandates have been around since the founding of our county and have had several supreme court cases affirm their legality. There is nothing tyrannical about them. vaccines are part of a functioning society.
You say that your family made the decision to get vaccinated based on science. But, you don’t give others the same benefit of the doubt.
DLo
I want every body to have a free choice to take the vaccine. I am against the mandates.
As to why I attack, because these folks are attacking those that will not conform to the mandates. These folks are attacking, I am defending a persons right to choose.
Vaccines are a part of society, but vaccines prevent a sickness. One of the drugs on the market protect you if you can still catch, and transmit Covid. These drugs are mislabeled as vaccines and should be labels as comfort care.
Any other questions?
@DLo
Well, first we are REQUIRED to get the shots to go to school, work, or play.
Now we are REQUIRED to show proof of those shots to go to school, work, or play
Then if we have not gotten the shot, or show proof of that shot, we are forced to stay at home or be put someplace where we are contained in the name of “SAFETY”
Right? Follow the propaganda and the direction of your REQUIRED leadership.
The covid-19 vaccines are not safe and effective no matter how many times people say they are. VAERS date proves the narrative to be wrong. Anyone can read the data. One must also account that most doctors and people fail to report most bad reactions to the vaccine. The vaccine does protect you from getting it, nor does it protect you from spreading it. And statistics show that numbers of patients in the ICU are badly inflated and that those who are in the ICU are fully vaccinated. How much was the school board and the people making the decision paid for mandating this crap?
Please share where you got your statistics from.
By reading his post I am able to deduct he got his statistics from VAERS. Why can’t you do the same?
Open Vares – submitted by the public this is volunteer reporting
https://openvaers.com
Vares -regulated
https://vaers.hhs.gov
Please show the statistics for this sentence:
And statistics show that numbers of patients in the ICU are badly inflated and that those who are in the ICU are fully vaccinated.
And this: One must also account that most doctors and people fail to report most bad reactions to the vaccine.
JJ is sharing his opinion but stating it as fact. Also VAERS is not fact. Anyone can report anything to it. This cannot be relied upon for true statistics.
Anyone can report anything to any statistic.
Terrible! If I had kids, they wouldn’t step foot in public schools!
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the wokest of them all?
Yes. This.
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OUSD? Hahahaha…
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Given OUSD’s track record of poor fiscal policy and and administrative management, they’ll figure out a way to screw it up.
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Geez, this over-educated IDIOT is a fountain of platitudes and unadulterated BS.
– “ Besides protecting students from severe disease, hospitalization, and death, the vaccine also protects others, Mukherjea said.”
What a load of tripe…see: Cleveland Clinic, Vermont,Israel., etc etc. And more with the inane “it protects others”…yeah it’s sunny out today so I better put on sunscreen to protect my neighbor who’s out doing yard work. If “others” are vaccinated, then they should have no concern…well that is if the leaky “vaccine” actually worked.
– “ Most schools mandate vaccines for children, he said.”
Yeah genius, vaccines—ACTUAL VACCINES—with longstanding track records of efficacy and safety, that weren’t rushed through trials, and THEN given a sham stamp of “Approval” after the FDA suspended normal approval protocols…and oh by the way, will these vials being used to inject kids have COMIRNATY on the label? If not it’s still EUA…being injected into healthy kids…who have a 99.99% survival rate even if they do happen to contract China virus.
Also let me know how many of those mandated vaccines EXCLUDED children/adolescents in their Phase 3 clinical trials, you know, the way Pfizer*, Moderna, and AZ did (*= “MANY EXCLUDED”). And given how many “breakthrough” infections there are with these China virus “vaccines”, how many kids these days are coming down with cases of polio after they’ve got the polio vaccine.
– “ Hundreds of millions of people have received the vaccine and if there was a major, adverse effect we would have known it by now, Mukherjea said.”
There’s no way on God’s green earth this moron uttered this line of absolute horse**** with a straight face…to call this gaslighting would be a colossal understatement. THOUSANDS of deaths, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of injuries, but yeah, “we would have known about it.” See this is what happens when smooth-brains use imbecilic circular logic to cope: We pretend there are no reports of adverse effects > So we don’t investigate adverse effects > Therefore there are no adverse effects.
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Lighten up, Francis.
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The vaccines offered today do not constitute an immunization. They REDUCE THE LIKELIHOOD OF SEVERE ILLNESS DUE TO COVID-19.
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I received my vaccinations in late April and June so the early adopters were the guinea pigs for “adverse reactions”.
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Oh lawdy lawdy besides a big toe, Sgt Hulka has quite the smooth brain. Clot shots in April and June, so that’s probably when there were “only” a few thousand deaths and maybe couple hundred thousand injuries, aka adverse effects. And tell me all about long-term effects, quite interested to hear this considering a year ago these “vaccines” were still in clinical trials so there’s precisely ZERO long-term data.
Gosh, with a virus that had a >99% survival rate even before the leaky vaccines, it’s almost as if having a healthy immune system and not being obese (or elderly) REDUCES THE LIKELIHOOD OF SEVERE ILLNESS DUE TO WU FLU.
This is the beginning.
Mandates and restrictions are going to grow not only in numbers but in severity too.
You can’t even imagine what they plan to do.
The only thing that’s certain is that it isn’t going to be good for anyone.
Not one kid in the county that age has died of covid. Why are these officials so bone headed.
I have 2 kids that go to Sequoia Middle School. I got the shot, but I don’t think I want my perfectly healthy kids with great immune systems getting it. Why? and where do I go from here?
Arnab Mukherjea: “It creates a wall of human immunity for sixth-graders.”
How can anyone believe a word he says after such a blatant lie that won’t hold up to even the most basic scrutiny?
These public health people are becoming a cult.
“This vaccine is safe and effective “. How does he know?????
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaers-deaths-reported-covid-vaccines/
Why don’t people call public schools what they really are. Government schools, for people who can’t afford to send there kids to a good school.
“People who can’t afford to send “their” kids to a good school.
I would say Follow The Money as usual. It would be interesting to look at the pharmaceutical companies ansd see which officials of the Department of Public Health own shares of stock in Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson.
To mandate an experimental shot violates the Nuremberg code. absolutely illegal I would bet my bottom dollar that they are being paid to force mask mandates and experimental gene therapy shots .all these so-called health experts need to be brought up on charges we need a Nuremberg two trial for all these people that think they have power . I help these people get what is coming to them either in this life or the next it is absolutely appalling the abuse that they’re putting our children through statistically children are not affected by whatever is out there you’re going to see a lot more deaths and debilitating physical issues including neurological damage if we start trying to give these kids these experimental therapies this should have been stopped long ago the death rate and the severe adverse reactions are off the chart what are we doing? Fachi needs to be fired immediately he is a medical tyrant. Him and his buddies may very well be the first people on trial
Meanwhile, the rate of myocarditis in young men after a second shot could be around one in a few thousand. Is that an acceptable risk for a healthy 12 year old whose risk of severe Covid outcome is practically nil??
In the UK a 12 year old cant get the shot unless they are specially at risk. Here it’s mandated for school. Even for perfectly healthy teens, many of whom have already had Covid and very little to gain from the vax.
And this wall of immunity talk is nonsense. We know there are breakthrough cases. It’s not a wall. And cases in younger kids drop when adult cases do anyway. This vax should be for adults, period. This is the umpteenth time kids have been sacrificed to the irrational fears of adults. Ruined their education, bumped the obesity rates, provoked a mental health crisis, put masks on toddlers … the experiment in child sacrifice continues. It’s disgusting, morally abhorrent. No decent society throws all the burden on children. To do so needlessly, against all the evidence – there’s a special place in hell.
I agree with your statements. I’ve said this before, that these coercive mandates violate basic principles of medical ethics…we don’t immunize children against diseases that primarily harm the elderly in hope of reducing transmission risks for the elderly..that would use them as a means to another end, which is unethical. This is why a person must freely choose to accept medical risks for the benefit of others, like donating a kidney for transplant where there is no moral duty to do so—this is why we don’t harvest organs without consent, even if doing so would save many lives. You’re right, the children are being sacrificed while these coercive policies are steamrolling fundamental liberties for all of us!
For those who will comply with this: you.ight want to opt for J&J if your kid is a boy.
Looks like a mashup between the Tuskeegee and Stanford experiments is in the making. We are definitely living in interesting times.
Sorry…MY CHILDREN ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HEALTH OF ANYONE ELSE. Neither am I or any of my family for that matter. Never, ever will my kids be injected with that Mrna poison that neither prevents getting or spreading covid. This all has become some dystopian noire theater. Its unbelievable!
As a side point, my barely teenager recently tested positive for covid after being exposed and her symptoms were…wait for it…no worse than a common cold. And no one else in our family…including her 81 and 84 year old grandparents who stayed with us, we her very middle aged parents, her sister, nor her friends who had come for a sleepover, contracted it.
I’m sick of the bullsh*it propaganda being peddled against this so called pandemic. Its an evil sham and power grab and it seems most liberals are complicit in furthering the lies and deceit.
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