On Tuesday, reports emerged that 48 schools across the country continue to require prospective scholars to get the COVID-19 vaccine to be admitted, nearly a year after Congress declared the pandemic over. Lawmakers and political pundits denounce the existing mandates as discriminatory. unnecessary, too burdensome, and potentially dangerous.
The list of schools requiring the vaccine, which is maintained through the organization No College Mandates, includes most private schools, with a few notable exceptions, such as Johns Hopkins University.
Following the recent revision of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 rules recommending staying home for 24 hours after having a fever (which in the past lasted five days), Harvard University dropped its COVID-19 vaccination requirement in early March, with several other smaller schools also dropping their mandates in recent weeks.
College Fix noted that nearly 100 schools had a COVID-19 vaccine requirement since last summer, and that number has since declined.
Still, four dozen schools remain a requirement, prompting one congressman to publicly call for an end to all nationwide shooting mandates.
“I’m on the competition committee, so we oversee day-to-day jobs given the enormous amount of investment allocated to higher education,” Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif. , told The Epoch Times on Tuesday. There would be paths that we could take legislatively, adding through investment, to make sure that we don’t have this kind of unscientific demonstration that lacks any hint of rational thinking. “
He went on to call the COVID-19 shooting “unfair, unjust, and unnecessary” “discrimination. “
New Jersey Republican Sen. Declan O’Scanlon was more particular in his denunciation of the execution orders, calling for Rutgers University to be stripped of its public funding.
“It’s hard to express how absurd and irrational Rutgers University’s vaccination policy is,” O’Scanlon said. “As the 2024-2025 semester fast approaches, Rutgers principals continue to insist that all students, faculty, and individuals get the COVID-19 vaccine. a policy that has no clinical basis. In fact, this total policy is anti-science.
Studies have shown that the COVID-19 vaccine does not prevent infection or transmission, and the CDC itself admits that “vaccinated people get sick with the virus that causes COVID-19. “
Studies have also shown that natural immunity resulting from past infection is “equivalent” to injecting to prevent long-term infection. One study even found that “the incidence of COVID infection was higher in vaccinated people. . . than in previously inflamed people. “
In addition, studies on the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine continue to raise concerns. A study published in February looked at 99 million vaccinated people worldwide, which “confirmed pre-established protective signals for myocarditis, pericarditis, and Guillain-Barré syndrome. “and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Other potential protective signals have been identified that require further investigation.
In a recent op-ed, Nicholas Tampio, a professor at Fordham University, noted that vaccine mandates are cause for specific fear for students entering school because “the age of greatest threat for myocarditis is young adults ages 16 to 17. “
As noted by The Epoch Times, according to the Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database, “COVID-19 shots have been named as the prime suspect in more than 1. 5 million adverse occasion reports. “almost much higher, as an “FDA-funded study conducted at Harvard found that VAERS cases account for less than 1% of vaccine-related adverse events. “
Policy experts are also involved in how persistent COVID-19 vaccine mandates constitute barriers to obtaining a college education.
“The number of publicly funded universities that still want an opportunity is very concerning,” Meg Kilgannon, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, told Washington Stand, adding:
For students who want to attend a school close to home and pay their in-state tuition, why create another hurdle for them by requiring them to have a debatable vaccine instead of a disease that doesn’t have a serious effect on their age group?”Going through the list of the remaining 48, many are personal schools and many have a devoted affiliation. The faster we can reduce this list to zero, the better!And kudos to the 536 schools that NEVER required the vaccine. They must also be recognized for their integrity and make student fitness and medical freedom a more sensible priority. They didn’t stop the most sensible students from getting vaccinated, but they didn’t force the issue.
Jonathan Pidluzny, director of the Higher Education Reform Initiative at the America First Policy Institute, further expressed dismay at the vague implications of COVID-19 vaccine requirements in the discourse.
“There is no public eligibility justification for requiring COVID-19 vaccination in higher education,” he said at the Washington booth. “It’s an empty political gesture. But it reveals something about the campus: Administrative leaders surrendered to far-left activists.
“Students who enroll in those schools can expect 4 years of anti-intellectual nonsense: from microaggression boot camps to yelling and partial reaction teams. It would be hard to find a better way to make applicants perceive that a university is more interested in exercising top-down student habits and thinking than helping them become guilty adults, capable of thinking for themselves.
Originally via The Washington Stand
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Dan Hart is editor-in-chief of The Washington Stand.
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