Fauci backs COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. school children

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he supports COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children attending schools as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus continues to fuel a surge in cases in the nation. 'I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea,' Fauci told CNN’s 'State of the Union' program. 'We've done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis' vaccinations.