DeWine said he opposes House Bill 248, which would block employers from mandating vaccinations as a condition of employment and allow residents to skip any vaccination by making a written or verbal declaration. It would also prohibit mask mandates for unvaccinated people and block health departments, schools or other government agencies from mandating participation in a vaccine registry. "Before modern medicine, diseases such as mumps, polio, whooping cough were common and caused great, great, great suffering and death to thousands of people every single year," said DeWine during a news conference announcing the latest winners for the state’s Vax-a-Million lottery.