West Virginia Reinstates Ban on Religious Exemptions From School Vaccine Requirements

The state’s education board said the reinstated ban ‘will be in effect until the Supreme Court issues further guidance.’

A man gets a vaccine in Buffalo, W.Va., on March 26, 2021. Stephen Zenner/Getty Images

The West Virginia Board of Education on Dec. 2 reinstated its ban on religious exemptions to school vaccine requirements after the state Supreme Court paused a lower court’s ruling that had permitted them.

The board said in a statement it was reimposing its order to county boards of education “not to accept religious exemptions to compulsory vaccination laws.”