Around the country, vaccine policy is on hold while lawmakers recover from a pandemic-policy hangover.
A bill to mandate the HPV vaccine, which can prevent cervical and oral cancers, among students was thwarted largely by California education groups exhausted from the vaccine wars of the pandemic. | Charles Rex Arbogast/AP PhotoSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The HPV vaccine has been around for almost two decades and could spare thousands of people from developing cervical and oral cancer — so mandating it for schoolchildren once seemed an easy call for Democrats in deep-blue California.
Toxic, pandemic-era battles over immunizations and school closures have made vaccine politics radioactive, even on diseases wholly unrelated to Covid-19. In California, where lawmakers pushed through some of the nation’s strictest mandates through 2019, schools are wary of wading back into the fight.
Anti-vaccine activists, who argue immunizations are a personal choice and should not be compelled by the state, have seized on that reluctance — and lately, they’ve been on a winning streak.
In 2007, Texas became the first state to mandate HPV vaccines for 11- and 12-year-old girls when then-Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, signed an executive order. His action was quickly overturned by the state legislature after public outcry over the vaccine manufacturer Merck’s lobbying and campaign contributions to the governor. It cast an early shadow of controversy over the vaccine, one that skeptics have latched onto since.
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