The head of public health for Georgia, Dr. Kathleen Toomey, said she is very worried that bills in the Georgia Senate could undo decades of progress in infectious disease eradication among children. “In the many years I’ve worked in public health, this is probably the first time I actually am worrying that we may lose our childhood immunization levels,” Toomey said during remarks closing the February meeting of the state Board of Public Health on Tuesday. “There has been so much visibility about mandates and vaccines and negativity and polarization around COVID that, unfortunately, it’s spilled over into childhood immunizations, with some very real threats,” Toomey continued. Currently two bills are in committee. Both bills have been promoted as being explicitly about stopping mandated proof of COVID vaccination to access government services.

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