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100 Ind. L.J. Supp. 1 (2024-2025)

handle is hein.journals/spplmntinlj100 and id is 1 raw text is: Does Federal Preemption Inoculate Us Against the Alarming Prospect of State Vaccine Bans? LARS NOAH* With growing resistance to vaccinations premised, for instance, on misplaced fears of side effects or religious objections it takes little effort to imagine that a state might act to prohibit some or all uses of a particular vaccine licensed by the federal government. Indeed, one year ago, legislators in a couple of states toyed with the idea of banning the primary vaccines against Covid-19, and, twenty years ago, half a dozen states effectively barred certain uses of one flu vaccine formulation. Althoughfederal law should preempt at least some of these types of state restrictions, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution provides only a limited safeguard against such extremism. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................1 I. EMERGING STATE THREATS TO VACCINE ACCESS.................................................3 II. ASSESSING THE PREEMPTION DIMENSION.............................................................7 III. FOCUSING ON FEDERALLY LICENSED VACCINES.................................................11 CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................16 * Chesterfield Smith Eminent Scholar and Professor of Law, University of Florida (UF); member, UF's Emerging Pathogens Institute; author, Law and the Public's Health (Carolina Acad. Press 2023), and Law, Medicine, and Medical Technology (Foundation Press 5th ed. 2022).