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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]COVID-19 vaccination policy
As of May 9, 2023, Johns Hopkins University has simplified its COVID-19 vaccination policy. All incoming students and employees must have received at least one dose of any FDA- or WHO-authorized vaccine. This does not impact current affiliates who have been vaccinated or have received an appropriate exemption. Upload proof of your vaccination to the Vaccine Management System (VMS) as soon as you’ve had your shot.
This simplified policy aligns with current FDA guidelines. It also more closely matches the wide availability of the single dose COVID-19 vaccine, as the original two-shot series is scarce.[/quote]
"Scarce" is amusing as the original series is no longer authorized by FDA. The bivalent is also no longer authorized by FDA. The current authorized version is the XBB monovalent.

The problem for JHU is that the mandate is unethical. Ethics requires that the product have proven benefit both for third parties (transmission) and the person required to take the product (college students). There is no RCT data proving durable and sizeable benefit vs transmission and yet 2021 shots are acceptable. No RCT data prove benefit against severe disease for previously infected young adults such as college students. Seroprevalence is in the 90s.

Accordingly, 95% of colleges that mandated the shots back in 2021 no longer do so. JHU is the top-ranked school to continue it at the moment. We shall see if JHU gets around to changing this in the spring, probably after the enrollment deadline (idiots).

(And yes, with flu vaccine efficacy in the toilet in recent years, that mandate is likewise irrational and unethical. But, no one complained as the risk of side effects was smaller, albeit still >0.)[/quote]

Are you sure this is the right forum for you? Isn't there some kind of public health practitioners board for you? [/quote]

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