Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine spoke out on a bill that would ban mandatory vaccines and so-called vaccine passports, which has been set for next Tuesday, during the legislative break.
DeWine also suggested that he鈥檇 have a hard time signing it.
The governor said he鈥檚 surprised that a lawmaker would propose that would ban vaccines from childhood inoculations to meningitis shots. He said hospitals should decide how to keep their patients safe and schools shouldn鈥檛 be told they can鈥檛 require certain shots.
鈥淭hat goes against local control and so I鈥檓 surprised by that and certainly, you know, it鈥檚, bills that I鈥檝e looked at, I鈥檓 certainly not in favor of doing that," DeWine said.
The bill bans vaccine mandates by schools, daycare centers, nursing homes, health care providers, insurers, colleges and universities and employers. It would also ban any entity from refusing service or treating unvaccinated people differently from those who鈥檝e had their shots.
The bill doesn't deal with mandatory COVID-19 vaccines in public colleges and universities. that prohibits requiring vaccines that don't have full FDA approval.
DeWine had said when he signed it that he was hoping COVID vaccines would have that full approval by the time the law went into effect. The governor also said before the law takes effect.
, largely because it featured false information about COVID vaccines. Among those who testified was Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, named as providing the bulk of disinformation about COVID shots on social media.
She was deplatformed by Twitter after her testimony, in which she suggested that there are investigations into the vaccines "magnetizing" people or "interfacing" with 5G cell towers.
Copyright 2021 The Statehouse News Bureau. To see more, visit .
