School Immunizations Required For Students Heading Back To In-Person Learning

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While COVID-19 vaccinations have been getting most of our attention over the last few months, Ohio Department of Education and local school officials are reminding parents that their children must be immunized from other diseases before returning to in-person learning.

Many schools around the state have either been out of session or allowed students to learn remotely, since the outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The goal of the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) Immunization Program is to reduce and eliminate vaccine-preventable diseases among Ohio’s children, adolescents and adults. 

The Immunization Program provides the following services:

• Administers the Vaccines for Children Program;
• Developed and maintains the state wide immunization registry;
• Provides grants to improve immunization levels and vaccine use;
• Offers a wide range of training, education and technical support to health departments
  and health care providers;
• Provides vaccine to birthing hospitals to emphasize the importance of hepatitis B prevention;
• Works with health care providers to prevent the spread of vaccine-preventable
  diseases and improve immunization rates.

The ODH Immunization Program seeks to prevent 17 vaccine-preventable diseases (listed below) with  currently available vaccines. 

Diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis 
Haemophilus influenzae type b                
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Human papillomavirus 
Influenza                     
Measles, mumps and rubella     
Meningococcal  (meningitis) 
Pneumococcal  (pneumonia)   
Polio                                        
Rotavirus                                 
Varicella  (chicken pox)
Zoster (shingles- adults only)

To access the current CDC Recommended Immunization Schedules: Childhood, Adolescent and Adult

Visit the ODH Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Program: PHBPP 

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