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US colleges will require students to be vaccinated, despite state policies:
A growing number of US colleges have said all students must be fully vaccinated before returning to campus, in a move likely to anger some state governors. At least 14 colleges have said vaccination will be required so far, according to a CNN tally, and that number is expected to grow.
In late March Rutgers University became one of the first institutions to declare that having all students vaccinated will allow for an "expedited return to pre-pandemic normal."
Cornell, Brown, Notre Dame, Northeastern, Syracuse, Ithaca and Fort Lewis have made similar announcements, though all will make exceptions for medical or religious reasons. Cornell has also created an online registration tool so students and staff can register their vaccination status.
Two colleges, St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, and Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Broward, Florida, have gone a step further, requiring students and all campus employees to be vaccinated.
NSU's policy puts it on a collision course with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. After NSU's announcement on April 1 DeSantis signed an executive order stating that vaccines are available but not mandated. Crucially the order prohibits any government entity or business from requiring a vaccine passport. NSU said Thursday that it is reviewing the executive order.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @03:19PM (7 children)
No, it is the "other people" who have no right to invent improbable "risks" to justify their doing actual material harm to people.
You carry around a few kilograms of bacteria and viruses. Any one of those trillions cells and particles is potentially deadly for someone whose immune system does not do its work. Let's seal you into a hermetic can for the rest of your life to prevent that horrible possibility, shall we?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiome [wikipedia.org]
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-human-microbiome-project-defines-normal-bacterial-makeup-body [nih.gov]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 12 2021, @04:54PM (3 children)
Thank you for your opinion. I'll listen to the medical people.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @05:34PM (2 children)
Aren't the medical people, at the moment, all saying that vaccination totally protects you from severe COVID? Who you are listening to, to hear the opposite instead, pray tell?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 13 2021, @06:12PM
Nope. Any more questions?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @07:07PM
An increasing number of people are dying of COVID after being fully vaccinated and beyond the 2 week period where immunity is supposed to kick in. These vaccines are more like flu shots. They provide temporary resistance, not immunity, and will likely need to be repeated each year - indefinitely. And even after taking your shot you can still catch COVID, and even die from it. The goal of the shot has gone from immunity (as was initially claimed before they were granted emergency use authorization) to simply reducing severe outcomes.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @05:15PM (2 children)
The "improbable risk" to which you refer has killed nearly 3 million people worldwide.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @05:28PM
All of whom vaccinated against COVID?
Bad liar, no cookie for you.
BTW, 3 million is how many die from communicable lower respiratory tract disease (aka pneumonia) in any regular year.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death [who.int]
And if you start counting every death with something as a death from that something, then the deadliest thing in the world is the Escherichia coli bacterium; literally everyone who died, carried a lot of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @06:34PM
Which, even with funny math Covid counts, makes it an improbable risk of 0.037%.