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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by gpm on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:13AM (#25161773)
State governments probably have the power to require it.
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Re:Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to dist... by ghaff on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:42PM (#25162837)
You may be right although I have a hard time seeing that happening politically. IANAL, but the relevant case law seems to be Jacobson v Massachusetts (1905) upholding mandatory smallpox vaccinations which AFAIK has never been superseded. [1] That said, the US Supreme Court also upheld a Virginia law that authorized the involuntary sterilization of “feeble minded” persons in state institutions in 1927. It's hard to imagine similar laws passing muster today, probably for 14th Amendment reasons.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449224/

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