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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges have always had vaccination requirements for communicable diseases. I went back for grad school after time away and they asked for proof of my chicken pox vaccine. I had chicken pox, I had to have a blood titer to prove I didn’t need the vaccine. I did get the meningitis vaccine. I think the covid vaccine will live on at universities.[/quote]

I never had to show my vaccine card at the university I attended (public, California) in the 90s.

My oldest son started college in 2018, so before Covid.   He did not have to show is vaccine card at his school either.[/quote]

I remember submitting health forms to my state flagship in the 1980's. So this isn't new. Likely your parents submitted those forms from your pediatrician.[/quote]

And likely we all submitted them for our kids to attend either public or private K-12 schools over the last 13+ years.   Our school system had a measles outbreak 3-4 years ago.  Shut down the HS for 3 days. Required ALL faculty and staff to prove they had Measles titers (not just the shot, but that they had actual protection) in order to return to work.  Had two staff members (over 50, fully vaxed) whose vaccinations had obviously waned and were not protected and had ended up with measles  thanks to an area of Non-vaxers in our state (it's where the outbreak started in an area with known non-vaxers).  Several friends/teachers learned that they too no longer had good immunity---turns out if you only ever had 2 shots and are over 40, it's highly likely your immunity of one or all of the MMRs is waning.   Schools have been requiring vaccinations for decades---dont' get it and cannot prove medical reasons for not getting it and your kid cannot attend School.

Same school system: we had just moved and my kid was 2 months over the age for an 11yo vaccine booster (including Whooping cough).  Would not let my kid start school without getting the booster within the first week.  They were serious about it---I had to find a new doc the week before school started (try that sometime and get a physical---damn near impossible) to get my kid their shot---school took it serious because 3 years before that they'd had a Whooping cough outbreak--once again with kids who were "fully vaxed" but brought into area from a non-vaxed kiddo.  One of our neighbors had it in the outbreak---out sick for over 2 months and they were up to date with their vaccines---10 yo kid was hospitalized with it.  There is a reason schools require vaccines.  For all vaccines, protection is always better the more people who are vaxed---it's how epidemiology works. [/quote]

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