Student-athletes in Manassas may soon be forced to get a coronavirus vaccination.
The city School Board is set to vote on a mandate for athletes at its meeting on Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Longtime School Board member Tim Dimeria, who is running to be elected the city's next commissioner of the revenue on November 2, pushed to force vaccines on teenagers.
"We need to get ahead of this thing, more so than we already have," said Dimeria. "We haven't waited to see what other [school divisions] are going to do."
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