Fauci Says It’s a ‘Good Idea’ to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for School Children

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 11, 2021. Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president, says that mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for children attending school are a “good idea.”

“I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea. We’ve done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis. So this would not be something new, requiring vaccinations for children to come to school,” Fauci said on Aug. 29 on CNN’s “State of the Union.”