Despite the CDC easing guidelines for the disease earlier this month and continued concerns about possible side effects and the overall performance of the shots, a COVID- 19 necessity also exists in four dozen colleges in the United States.
No College Mandates, an organization that is critical of the requirements, maintains the tally, claiming on its website that the” coercive nature of college vaccine mandates completely disregards students ‘ individual freedom and right to bodily autonomy.”
The CDC just suggested that those who test positive for COVID should be kept isolated for 24 hours instead of just five days.
Harvard University abruptly ended its COVID vaccine mandate, citing the Epoch Times ‘ report as “walking again on its statement just weeks before that all learners needed the chance to file for the drop semester.”
Montclair State University in New Jersey and St. Mary’s College of California are two other institutions that have left their respective jurisdictions as soon as the CDC’s news.
As of today, these 48 schools are the last remaining with public student population C19 vaccination demands. photograph. twitter.com/3pNXiZm8Au
— No College Mandates ( @NCM4Ever ) March 16, 2024
According to The College Fix, the number of schools that are still requiring the COVID vaccination is down from almost 100 next summer.
Among the 48 universities that still maintain a COVID vaccination requirement is Johns Hopkins University, ranked as one of the best public health institutions in 2023 by U. S. News &, World Report.
Nicholas Tampio, a graduate of Fordham University, wrote an op-ed part for the Baltimore Sun on March 11 to urge his college to repeal its requirement for COVID vaccine.
Tampio, who earned his doctorate at JHU, wrote it was one of his “proudest achievements”. However, Tampio did not recommend Johns Hopkins when his brother applied to schools this year, with the vaccine requirement being a major factor.
When asked what it might get for hold universities to reevaluate COVID guidelines, Tampio responded to The College Fix:” It will take force on administrators to stop COVID- 19 mandates at the last remaining holdouts.”
He added in an internet that a university’s board of trustees has effect, and one way to assist them in understanding that the mandated” cause more harm than good” to school reputations is to educate them.
One review of 99 million vaccinated individuals revealed” health signals for disease, myocarditis, Guillain- Barré syndrome, and cognitive vascular sinus thrombosis”, Tampio referenced in his op- ed.
Another study found that those who received the COVID vaccine were more likely than those who had previously been COVID-infected.
According to Tampio, JHU’s vaccination information page “refuses to acknowledge natural immunity,” claiming that prior COVID infection is not a criterion for medical exceptions.
After refusing the COVID vaccine at the start of the pandemic, world-renowned biostatistician and infectious- disease epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff was formally terminated from Harvard Medical School this month.
Kulldorff claimed” superior” infection-acquired immunity, and according to Kulldorff, Harvard hospitals would reject his medical exemption. His religious exemption was also denied.
Kulldorff had long argued that measures like social distancing, masking children, and vaccination post- infection were not the best approach to the pandemic.
Kulldorff told the Journal that there is a” cartel system” in scientific publishing, and the pandemic showed that smaller countries with independent funding published many “key papers”, as they had “more freedom” and “were n’t dependent on any NIH funding”.
According to Tampio, “universities and researchers in the natural sciences depend on grants to do their work,” there is no way to determine whether money is influencing university policy.
The best way to prevent people from citing the best data they can and demanding that universities have academic integrity is until universities find a way to fund research that does n’t hold universities accountable to their funders, he said via email.
The NIH has awarded Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences$ 33, 193, 472 and Johns Hopkins University$ 155, 405, 530 in fiscal year 2024, Tampio told The Fix.
Rutgers, like JHU, still has a COVID vaccine requirement.
A New Jersey senator earlier this month suggested that Rutgers should lose state funding for the COVID vaccine requirement.
The College Fix reached out to the office of the dean of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, Dr. Ellen MacKenzie, who did not respond for comment.
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