Virginia

{Miyares} notes that the General Assembly had several opportunities to add COVID-19 to the statute and did not. ... “Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the General Assembly has amended other statues to address pandemic-related issues,” the opinion says. “To date, the General Assembly has not amended the specific immunizations enumerated in (state code) to include immunization for COVID-19, and boards of visitors may not exercise and implied power to require {a} certain vaccine when a specific statue governing vaccination excludes it.”