What Happens Now After Judge Tosses Unified San Diego Vaccine Mandate

So now what happens? There are lots of questions the morning after a Superior Court judge threw out the vaccine mandate for students in San Diego Unified.

The judge’s ruling, that it conflicts with state law, coming down on the very day the mandate required all students to be vaccinated. What happens now?

San Diego Unified issued a statement that said they are reviewing their legal options.

While thousands of students in the district have been vaccinated, a lot have not. According to the San Diego Union about 20 percent of 14,000 students 16 and older have not gotten any dose of the vaccine as of last week.

So, will parents keep getting their kids vaccinated anyway or will the ruling cause some parents to delay it for now?

And how will the ruling in the San Diego Unified case, affect the vaccine mandate that the county’s second largest school district, Sweetwater Union, has approved starting in the next school year?

And what will school districts elsewhere in California do? And what will Governor Newsom and the state legislature do?

And will the rising number of cases of the new Omicron variant of the COVID virus have any impact on what happens next?

These are all important questions. And the sooner there are answers, the sooner it will be that we all know what happens next.

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