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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The big deal is that there is no benefit for OP's kid, w/two shots and two covid infections. Only risk. Forcing it is unethical. There is no basis.

(See eg https://www.fda.gov/media/159007/download #38)[/quote]

I agree (I'm not the pp you quoted, but I'm the first respondent at 16:41 yesterday.)
But schools made their position on the vaccine known before decision day (May 1.)   As a pp noted, a few (like Rice and Vanderbilt) have actually walked back their requirement for a booster (I'm not aware of any schools that did NOT have a booster requirement on May 1, but have since mandated it.)

If it was important to someone to have a choice to not get the booster, they could have applied to many other schools that not only do not require the booster, but do not require the vaccine at all.  [/quote]

Yes!  Colleges can set their requirements.  You can choose not to attend if you don't want to follow it.  Colleges have had vaccination reqs for decades.  Some even require Meningitis B vax, others don't.  My kid can't attend most universities without the whole slew of vaccinations, similar to what was required in K-12 as well.  If you are a Health sciences major, you may have even more reqs.  My DC is employed at a company involved in the Healthcare industry, and guess what, since they have to travel to "healthcare sites", they are required to get a TB test done (and follow up with treatment I'd assume if they happen to test positive).  It's part of the job reqs.  Don't like it, they can find another job. Similarly they are required to be up to date on all other vaccines, including covid and a booster.   I for one would prefer anyone I might encounter in healthcare setting to be fully vaxed for all diseases.

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+1 from college faculty.  Families who don't work in higher ed, use your imagination about the human petri dish that is a college campus.  Now multiply that by 100, stop washing your hands, and share your beverage with the 6 nearest people around you, even if you've never met them before.  Even before covid, college students were sick *constantly*.  Anything you can immunize against, do it, and any healthy behaviors you can promote (including basic things like nutrition and sleep), do it.

As PPs have said, families of rising college freshmen are completely free to decline admissions offers at any time from schools with whose policies (of any kind) they disagree.  And absolute truth to tell, as inconvenient or expensive or disappointing or frustrating or bait-and-switch or wasteful as it might seem, older students are also completely free to take a gap year or transfer out if they don't want their school's covid mandates.  No one is forcibly trapped in college.[/quote]

+1   My student lived in close quarters in a residence hall all year.  Ate in the dining hall multiple times a day.    Got his booster just prior to Thanksgiving.    He managed to not get Covid during the December surge as well as the rest of the year.    All the protocols in place were helpful, including the vax requirements IMO.    [/quote]

And imagine what it might have been like had every single student at your kid's college gotten a booster back in Nov/early Dec (or as soon as eligible)  Science says the surge would not have been as bad---most people I know who got covid during Dec/Jan were not boosted.

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That is simply not true when you look at the data.

Schools that did mandate the Covid shot did not have lower numbers of cases when compared to schools that did not mandate the Covid shot.

You are welcome to get your child as many shots as you would like.  Just don’t force that nonsense on the rest of us.  [/quote]

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