Despite the federal COVID-19 public health emergency ending in May, thousands of students still face a vaccine mandate.
A new report from No College Mandates identifies 101 colleges and universities that continue requiring COVID vaccinations for students at schools like Harvard University, Bates College, St. Catherine University, Hampton University, Santa Clara University, and more.
There are 104 colleges in the US still mandating COVID vaccines for students (faculty exempted) and some have indicated they will never let this go. All the while, they refuse to make sense of their pseudoscience. pic.twitter.com/R9hlVbPbwc
— No College Mandates (@NCM4Ever) July 22, 2023
Only 3 colleges dropped mandates from last week to this week leaving us with 101 colleges still mandating COVID vaccines for fall. They are likely operating with limited summer staff but each passing day that students are mandated to take these shots is one day too many. pic.twitter.com/BEsMOfBSSf
— No College Mandates (@NCM4Ever) July 30, 2023
Some schools like Rutgers are reportedly taking things to the extreme, according to the group, and “will begin disenrolling students who have not complied with COVID vaccine mandates on August 15th.”
“Exemptions are not a slam dunk,” NCM’s post on X goes on. “The coercion continues. They were the first to start it, and they will be the last to let go of it.”
It is my understanding that @RutgersU will begin disenrolling students who have not compiled with COVID vaccine mandates on August 15th. Exemptions are not a slam dunk. The coercion continues. They were the first to start it, and they will be the last to let go of it.
— No College Mandates (@NCM4Ever) July 27, 2023
Dr. Peter McCullough said Rutgers is "walking an unnecessary line of shame" with their mandate.
.@RutgersU walking an unnecessary line of shame. Will be held against a standard in the post Emergency Declaration era where majority of peer schools never had or dropped dangerous C19 vax mandates. @drcraigwax https://t.co/qUDwgyTzmS
— Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™ (@P_McCulloughMD) July 30, 2023
It's not only the colleges named in the report that are pushing the vaccine on these young adults, Health and Human Services is, too.
Of all groups, why is HHS focused on targeting college students with boosters?!? They are not at risk of severe Covid illness. https://t.co/nrmsnmqoS6
— Kelley K (@KelleyKga) July 31, 2023
Leave them alone! Colleges students don’t get “severe” COVID but they do get severe side effects!
— No College Mandates (@NCM4Ever) July 31, 2023
@CommunityNotes HHS suggests that COVID vaccines boost the immunity of college students when in fact recent evidence reported by a Cleveland Clinic group showed the opposite to be true…. More vaccine doses was associated with more COVID illness.
— Brad Banko, MD, MS (@BradBanko) August 1, 2023
"Boost your immune system"
— Brent A. Williams, MD (@BrentAWilliams2) August 1, 2023
This is pseudoscientific quackery. It increases vaccine hesitancy and vaccine skepticism. It decreases trust in public health and the medical profession.
It is idiotic. https://t.co/LDGORmNs4W