“The CDC is about to add the COVID vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.”
What PolitiFact found
States set vaccination requirements for attending school or daycare, not the CDC. State officials consider CDC recommendations when setting vaccine requirements, but experts said no state follows them completely.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News pundit) made this claim around 18 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 October 2022, 9 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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