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American Universities Order Students to Take Covid Vaccine before Returning to Classes

by Michael Curzon
28 April 2021 6:04 PM

A number of American universities have announced that they will require their staff and students to be vaccinated against Covid before being permitted to return to campuses this autumn. MailOnline has the story.

Several state university systems will require all students returning to classes and campuses this fall to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. 

A number of state and public institutions have made the announcement in the past week as they hope to get back to normal campus life after months of online learning.

Similar measures have been announced by some private institutions, but with the policy of requiring Covid vaccinations expanding into state and public school systems, the number of universities with the requirement has risen significantly.

Some private universities – including Brown, Cornell and Stanford – have announced similar requirements, and will be joined by California’s two state university systems, as well as several universities in New York, Massachusetts, Maryland and New Jersey.

Thursday’s joint announcement from the 10-campus University of California and the 23-campus California State University represented the largest of its kind in American higher education…

Including private universities, at least 80 have announced their intention to make vaccines mandatory to their students in order for them to return to campus, according to a count by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

But others have said outright that they will not require their students to be vaccinated. Republican Governors in Utah, Texas, Florida and Montana have signed orders banning institutions from requiring vaccines. 

According to Forbes, it is currently unclear how state executive orders banning Covid vaccine passports – such as that recently signed in Texas – will affect universities wishing to force their students to get vaccinated. Should the bans on unvaccinated students go ahead, it is expected that some exemptions “based on sincerely held religious views and medical conditions” will apply. Forbes has published a list of institutions that have said they will require staff and students to be vaccinated before they reopen.

MailOnline‘s report is worth reading in full.

Tags: AmericaStudentsVaccineVaccine Passports

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fon
fon
4 years ago

quite right too. vaccines are low risk and work great.

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isobar
isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

No, quite wrong! Nobody, especially concerning those of an age that the virus poses little risk to, should be coerced into having an experimental gene therapy that may pose more of a risk than the virus itself. I don’t know what planet you are in but I hope that it’s not the same one that I am on!

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fon
fon
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

to slw infections, you can use lockdown or vaccine, yet you’ll always get the stubborn fellows who reject both and then wind up with both, serves the buggers right in a funny sort of way!

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leicestersq
leicestersq
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

Why slow infections? Better to let it spread and allow the young and invulnerable to get immunity when young just like you do with chicken pox.

It would be madness to replace that natural immunity with blod clot causing gene changing experimental therapy that doesnt even work.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

“to slw infections, you can use lockdown or vaccine”

No substantive evidence of that, Rip van Winkle.

You’d best go back to sleep.

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FFxache
FFxache
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

*Distaval can be given with complete safety to pregnant women and nursing mothers without adverse effect on mother or child … Outstandingly safe Distaval has been prescribed for nearly three years in this country”
That’s from a contemporary advertisement for thalidomide, which was aggressively marketed at the time.
Outstandingly safe, mRNA vaccines have been prescribed for nearly three months in this country….

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  FFxache

… and thalidomide was much more tested than the snake oil.

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Corinna
Corinna
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

Do you not want students to learn that being healthy is your best immunity? I would have thought universities, as the ‘great seats of learning’, should be encouraging that, not a vaccine which removes all personal responsibility for one’s health. This also shows that universities are no longer places where a plurality of views are tolerated. That is the most disturbing element about this. University = how to fit into compliant culture (including cancel culture).

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

Biggest numpty in the world award goes to …

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Susan
Susan
4 years ago

Glad to see them author use the word “coerce.”

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Catee
Catee
4 years ago

Presumably they’ll be happy to payout compo for any serious side effects, and therefore happy to sign a liability statement to that effect prior to the students getting vaccinated.

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DaisyT
DaisyT
4 years ago

Not just in the USA, but Canada too. My 17 year old niece has been awarded a scholarship to the University of Guelph for September 2021 and has now been informed that in order to attend she must have a covid vaccine! My brother and sister in law are incredibly upset and my niece is now being coerced in to doing something she doesn’t want to do nor needs.

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AfterAll
AfterAll
4 years ago
Reply to  DaisyT

She should tell them where to go

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago

But the vaccines don’t prevent infection or transmiss…

…oh never mind, there’s no point in using logic or reason now that we are in the Age of the Endarkenment.

Last edited 4 years ago by realarthurdent
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fon
fon
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

That’s a bare faced lie: one dose halves tranmission, two doses more that halves transmission.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56904993

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

A very questionable study!

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Liewe
Liewe
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

Go right ahead and have your vaccine, Fon, it’s your choice! In fact, have mine too. Whether the vaccine works or not, the point is that no one should be coerced into getting one

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Catee
Catee
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

🤣🤣🤣
You’re linking to the BBC?
I can’t decide from your posts whether you just like winding people up or genuinely believe what you write.
I would really like you to change my mind on these vaccines so give it your best shot (pun intended). Here’s a clue, citing the BBC isnt going to do it.

Last edited 4 years ago by Catee
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djaustin
djaustin
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

https://khub.net/documents/135939561/390853656/Impact+of+vaccination+on+household+transmission+of+SARS-COV-2+in+England.pdf/35bf4bb1-6ade-d3eb-a39e-9c9b25a8122a?t=1619601878136

Feel free to go to the source material. It’s a significant analysis. You want Figure 2.

Last edited 4 years ago by djaustin
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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  djaustin

Mmmm … Source : Public Health England.

‘Infection’ definition? : “confirmed cases using PCR-based SARS-CoV-2 through national reporting systems”

Not an RCT.

Intra-household transmission normally only 17% according to other research.

Last edited 4 years ago by RickH
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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

“http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/“

I laughed so hard, the tears ran down me leg. Could explain a lot if you’re getting your misinformation from there!

Elbow in the middle. Arse further down.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

You have no idea at all what you are talking about. No Covid vaccine prevents you catching or spreading Covid. You are so stupid the article you link to even states it:

“University of Warwick epidemiologist Mike Tildesley said the findings were significant but pressed people to continue to take up vaccination offers.
“We need to remember these vaccines are not 100% effective either at preventing severe symptoms or at allowing yourself to be infected ….”

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Jez Hewitt
Jez Hewitt
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

By what measure, their extensive trials and PCR tests?

The whole shit-show is rigged. The tests are bollocks, the questions posed in the trials for the Lemsips were inadequate and still yet to be completed and the BBC are a bunch of bare faced cunts. You’re in good company.

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iane
iane
4 years ago

Heavens, being young doesn’t look so inviting nowadays!

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago

Last I checked, there had only been five specific cases of American college students who have died from or with COVID. There are approximately 20 million American college students, which means the odds of a college student dying from COVID over the past 14 months are 1-in-4-million.

As I keep posting, the probability a random American will get struck by lightning this year are 1-in-700,000.

Do colleges still teach statistics and probabilities? If so, why?

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leicestersq
leicestersq
4 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

Some might say that the solution is to coerce college students into wearing a lightning conductor.

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Catee
Catee
4 years ago

😂😂😂🤣🤣
You’re quoting the BBC?
I can’t decide from your posts whether you just like winding people up or are incredibly thick.

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chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

Nothing says he can’t be both. See also, Marianna Spring

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peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago

Our youngest son is currently ‘zooming’ a PHD at Denver University, a private Uni. He was given no choice, have a jab or you can’t continue course and therefore can’t fulfil your visa requirements, therefore will be thrown out of the country. Nice!
He had it, he is early 30s. He has been brainwashed , even though he is usually intelligent, so he has talked as if he didn’t mind. I don’t really know what he really thinks, its a bit difficult having that conversation via a phone link.
Bastards!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago

For those new to the poster named “fon” please be aware he is of 77 Brigade and not very bright.

Best to ignore him or tell him to:

F. #ck O. ff N. ow

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